Share Paper: Teaching about Control Flow Statements with Computer Games: Effects of Cognitive Differences on Secondary Education Students' Learning

  1. Charoula Angeli, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  2. Katerina Tortouri, University of cyprus, Cyprus

Abstract: The research examined the effects of two computer games on 13- and 14-year old students' understanding of the IF-THEN-ELSE structure, considering students' cognitive type of field-dependence/independence (FD-I). Specifically, the researchers assumed a counterbalanced design. They investigated whether there were any statistically significant differences in the performance of field-dependent (FD) and field-¬independent (FI) students when they learned about IF-THEN-ELSE using two different computer games and whether the order in which they used the computer games differentially affected their learning. The VD computer game was developed using Scratch and used verbal descriptions to teach the IF-THEN-ELSE structure. The LD computer game was ...