A game-based educational method relying on student-generated questions

• Autores: Enrique Alfonso Abad Jarillo, Julia Gil, Pilar Suárez
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 33, no. 6 (Parte A), 2017, págs. 1786-1797
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Student-generated multiple-choice questions (MCQs) revised by the instructor were used to design an educational gameand to set part of the final exam of an elementary course in Photonics. The exam results of students who had been asked toauthor MCQs (experimental group) were compared to those of a control group subject to traditional teaching. The resultsof the experimental group in the MCQ test of the exam were significantly better, whereas the results in the problem solving-part were comparable, resulting in a better overall performance of the experimental group. An anonymous survey revealedthat the students were satisfied with the method. The students also acknowledged that the method had helped them toattain a better command of the course contents at a theoretical and practical level.