Designing Multimedia Games for Young Children's Taxonomic Concept Development

Autor/inn/en	Sung, Yao-Ting; Chang, Kuo-En; Lee, Meng-Da
Titel	Designing Multimedia Games for Young Children's Taxonomic Concept Development
Quelle	In: Computers & Education, 50 (2008) 3, S.1037-1051 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1315
DOI	10.1016/j.compedu.2006.07.011
Schlagwörter	Physical Characteristics; Games; Concept Formation; Classification; Preschool Children; Thematic Approach; Multimedia Materials + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körperliche Erscheinung; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Themenzentrierter Unterricht
Abstract	This study aimed to design and evaluate multimedia games which were based on the theories of children's development of taxonomic concepts. Factors that might affect children's classification skills, such as use of single physical characteristics of objects, competition between thematic and taxonomic relationships, difficulty in forming hierarchical categories, were identified. Several strategies for overcoming the above disadvantages, such as verbal hints, linguistic labeling, exemplar comparison, and explicit statements were implemented in the Software for Rebuilding Taxonomy (SoRT) for improving children's taxonomic concept learning. Sixty children, aged 4 and 5, participated in the evaluation of SoRT. The results showed that the SoRT was helpful to improve children's distinction between thematic and taxonomic relationships and their learning of hierarchical taxonomic concepts. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10