Document Type : Original Article
Authors
Department of Education Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
10.22111/ijaer.2025.49358.1004
Abstract
Background and Objective: It should be noted that the effect of educational computer games on the accuracy and concentration of students depends on several factors, including the type of game, content, design, and duration of use. This research was conducted to investigate the effect of educational computer games on the accuracy and concentration of eighth-grade female students in Kerman.
Methods: Quasi-experimental research method and pre-test-post-test design with a control group were used. The statistical population of the research was all female students in the eighth grade of secondary school in Kerman City in the academic year 2022-2023 and a sample of 80 people was selected in the form of two classes of 40 people from the society by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Two Toulouse and Pieron accuracy questionnaires (1911) and Savary & Oraki concentration questionnaires (2015) were used to collect pre-test-post-test information and computer game software was used as an experimental practice.
Results:Data analysis was also done with the statistical method of analysis of covariance and using SPSS19 software. The results showed that computer educational games have been effective in improving the accuracy and concentration of students in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Conclusion: Therefore, due to the flexibility of the structure of educational computer games and their non-linear organization, the motivational features of computer games and the benefit of learning rules and principles such as immediate reinforcement, they can contribute to increasing concentration and accuracy.
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