1 resultado para Experimental fiction
em Brock University, Canada
Resumo:
This study was undertaken in order to determine the
effects of playing computer based text adventure games on
the reading comprehension gains of students. Forty-five
grade five students from one elementary school were
randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, and
were tested with regard to ability, achievement and reading
skills. An experimental treatment, consisting of playing
computer based interactive fiction games of the student's
choice for fifteen minutes each day over an eight-week
period, was administered. A comparison treatment engaged
the control group in sustained silent reading of materials of
the student's choice for an equal period of time. Following
the experimental period all students were post-tested with an
alternate form of the pre-test in reading skills, and gain
scores were analysed. It was found that there were no
significant differences in the gain scores of the experimental
and control groups for overall reading comprehenSion, but the
experimental group showed greater gains than the control
group in the structural analysis reading sub-skill. Extreme
variance in the data made generalization very difficult, but
the findings indicated a potential for computer based
interactive fiction as a useful tool for developing reading
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