Document Type : Research Paper
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Scientific member of the Geography Department of Farhangian University
Abstract
This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of game-based education in teaching map reading on the academic motivation of primary education students in the geographic map reading department at Farhangian University. The research method is semi-experimental in the form of pre-test and post-test with experimental and control groups. In which four classes (2 classes of boys and 2 classes of girls) were selected as available samples and placed in two experimental and control groups. For the experimental group, 6 sessions of a game-based educational package were considered and during this time, the control group was trained in the traditional way. Both groups were evaluated before and after the intervention using a researcher-made test of map reading and academic motivation questionnaire. The obtained data were analyzed using one-way and multi-way analysis of covariance. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in academic motivation (internal and external motivation). The results of this research confirmed the effectiveness of the game-based teaching method on the academic motivation of student teachers.
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