Diretrizes para o planejamento de experimentos em jogos educacionais voltados para o ensino de Engenharia de Software

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Allan Ximenes
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/7700
• topic: Design of experiments; Educational games; Software engineering; Teaching and learning; Experimentation with educational games; Planejamento de Experimentos; Jogos educacionais; Engenharia de Software; Ensino e Aprendizagem; Experimentação de Jogos Educacionais; Engenharia de software - Estudo e ensino; Jogos educativos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::PROBABILIDADE E ESTATISTICA::ESTATISTICA

Educational games constitute an important teaching tool in the area of Software Engineering, where, often, students do not pass through any mechanism for hands-on training. A quality educational game must have well-defined educational goals, motivate students and make effective learning of the content. The application of games in teaching Software engineering must be carried out in a systematic and controlled on the basis of evaluation. The statistical technique of experimentation allows the measurement and analysis of the variables involved in the process of applying for these games can be applied with quality. To further define the experiments in the use of games for teaching Software Engineering, this paper proposes guidelines for the design of experiments in educational games, in order to verify the influence and significance of the use of these games in the teaching and learning of the concepts of Software engineering. An experiment with SimulES-W was conducted following these guidelines, which may be demonstrated its applicability and simplicity in its definition. The experience of use of the SimulES-W shows that learning with computer games is fun, interactive and that, despite the results obtained are not statistically significant, somehow contributes to the teaching of Software Engineering, not necessarily a prior knowledge of the content.