The Effect of Educational Digital Game-Based Learning on Gifted and Talented Students' Teaching Hooke's Law: Try and See!
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15083545Keywords:
Educational digital game, Hooke's law, Attitude towards physics, Gifted and talented studentsAbstract
In this study, in which the effect of developing an educational digital game on gifted and talented students' attitudes towards physics was investigated, a quasi-experimental design with pretest/posttest control group design was used. While the control group conducted the experiment using PhET: Interactive simulations programme, the experimental group conducted the experiment in an educational digital game-based learning environment developed by the researcher. The study group of the research consisted of 46 11th grade students selected voluntarily. ‘Attitude towards physics scale’ was used in the study. When the findings of the study were examined, it was found that there was no significant difference between the pretest scores of the experimental and control groups, while there was a significant difference between the posttest scores in favour of the experimental group as a result of independent t test analysis. As a result, in this study, it was revealed that it is important to intensify the interest of students who spend most of their free time playing games in front of the computer to educational games with activities related to the courses.
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