Game-Based Application for Helping Students Review Chemical Nomenclature in a Fun Way

Mary Anne Sousa Lima ^[1] ; Álvaro Carvalho Monteiro ^[1] ; Antonio José Melo Leite Junior ^[1] ; Izac Sidarta de Andrade Matos ^[1] ; Francisco Serra Oliveira Alexandre ^[2] ; Davi Janô Nobre ^[1] ; André Jalles Monteiro ^[1] ; José Nunes da Silva Júnior ^[1]
1. [1] Universidade Federal do Ceará
  
  Universidade Federal do Ceará
  
  Brasil
2. [2] Instituto Federal de Educação, Brazil
Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 96, Nº 4, 2019, págs. 801-805
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This work provides information about a free-of-charge, trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, and English), game-based application. The game allows high-school and undergraduate students to review chemical nomenclature in an engaging and fun way on their own by answering random questions from a database with over 700 questions. Student testing revealed that the game design, content, playability, and usefulness was helpful as a complementary didactic tool to aid in traditional study. Assessment of student knowledge gains was performed. The results revealed that students who used the game as a complementary tool had higher performance in tests compared with students who studied nomenclature by only conventional learning methods.