Paper Info
Title
Development and Evaluation of an Educational Game to Practice the Truth Tables of Logic
Abstract
Already for years, the logic course in the first year of our Bachelor program in Computer Science has been a serious stumbling block for many students. They find the formal and abstract mechanisms of logic difficult and awkward to deal with. Many procrastinate, which results in poor understanding of the basic principles, which in turn causes them to fall even more behind. Previous attempts to remedy this have had little effect. Since educational games are deemed as an enjoyable way to foster learning, we decided to develop an educational game for the course. The game is a two-player competitive game inspired by an existing card game. We adapted this card game to proposition logic and digitized it as an app. The development was done in an iterative way. Each version was evaluated and based on the received feedback the software was improved and reevaluated. Based on the results of the evaluations we can conclude that the game is well suited for its target audience and is a good complement, and even replacement for some of the traditional face-to-face exercise sessions. However, we also noticed that making the game available without obligation to use was not the best approach. A good embedding into the course is needed to ensure that all students use the game. In this paper we present the game, explain and motivate its evolution, and present lessons learned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICALT.2019.00032
2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
educational games,player-centered,proposition logic,truth tables,multiple intelligence,TrueBiters
Theory of multiple intelligences,Proposition,Obligation,Procrastination,Computer science,Truth table,Target audience,Software,Bachelor,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2161-377X
2161-3761
978-1-7281-3486-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olga De Troyer1941127.19
Renny S. N. Lindberg200.68
Jan Maushagen300.68
Pejman Sajjadi436.14