The development, use, and evaluation of digital games and quizzes in an introductory course on organic chemistry for preservice chemistry teachers
- Due to the COVID pandemic, the introductory course on organic chemistry was developed and conducted as anonline course. To ensure methodical variety in this course,educational games and quizzes have been developed, used, and evaluated. The attendance of the course, and therefore also the use of the quizzes and games, was voluntary. The quizzes'main goalwas to give the students the opportunity to check whether they had memorized the knowledge needed in the course. Another goal was to make transparent which knowledge the students shouldmemorize by rote. The evaluation shows that the students hadnot internalized all knowledge which they should apply in severaltasks on organic chemistry. They answered multiselect questions in general less well than single-select questions. The games shouldcombine fun with learning. The evaluation of the games shows that the students rated them very well. The students used thosegames again for their exam preparation, as the monitoring of accessing the games showed. Students'experiences with usingelectronicDue to the COVID pandemic, the introductory course on organic chemistry was developed and conducted as anonline course. To ensure methodical variety in this course,educational games and quizzes have been developed, used, and evaluated. The attendance of the course, and therefore also the use of the quizzes and games, was voluntary. The quizzes'main goalwas to give the students the opportunity to check whether they had memorized the knowledge needed in the course. Another goal was to make transparent which knowledge the students shouldmemorize by rote. The evaluation shows that the students hadnot internalized all knowledge which they should apply in severaltasks on organic chemistry. They answered multiselect questions in general less well than single-select questions. The games shouldcombine fun with learning. The evaluation of the games shows that the students rated them very well. The students used thosegames again for their exam preparation, as the monitoring of accessing the games showed. Students'experiences with usingelectronic devices in general or for quizzes and games have also been evaluated, because their experience could influence thestudents'assessment of the quizzes and games used in our study. However, the students used electronic devices regularly and shouldtherefore be technically competent to use our quizzes and games. The evaluation showed that the use of digital games for learningpurposes is not very common, neither at school nor at university, although the students had worked with such tools before. Thestudents are also very interested in using and developing such digital games not only for their own study, but also for their future work at school…
Author details: | Jolanda HermannsORCiDGND, David KellerORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00058 |
ISSN: | 0021-9584 |
ISSN: | 1938-1328 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of chemical education / Division of Chemical Education, Inc., American Chemical Society |
Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
Place of publishing: | Washington |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/03/11 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2023/01/12 |
Tag: | Distance Learning; Games;; Humor; Internet; Organic Chemistry; Puzzles; Second-Year Undergraduate; Self Instruction; Web-Based Learning |
Volume: | 99 |
Issue: | 4 |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 1715 |
Last Page: | 1724 |
Funding institution: | "Qualitatsoffensive Lehrerbildung", a joint initiative of the Federal; Government - Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Chemie |
Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung (ZeLB) | |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 54 Chemie / 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften | |
Peer review: | Referiert |