The Development of ECON Matching Board Game to Promote Analytical Thinking on Economic Activities for Grade 11 Students at Demonstration School of Khon Kaen University (Mo Din Daeng)
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The purpose of this research was to develop an innovative ECON Matching Board Game on economic activities to enhance students’ critical thinking skills and to study the satisfaction towards learning through the board game ECON Matching for Grade 11 students. The researchers applied the design thinking method as a game development process consisting of: 1) problem understanding; 2) problem definition; 3) brainstorming; 4) prototyping; and 5) testing. The population was 150 Grade 11 students at the Demonstration School of Khon Kaen University (Mo Din Daeng), and 20 students were selected by purposive random sampling. The research instruments were: 1) critical thinking tests; 2) recordings of the focus group; and 3) the satisfaction assessment of the board game, ECON Matching. The data was analyzed using the mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that ECON Matching board game was developed as a board games for learning according to the set of objectives. The board game is a game that matches the economic activity picture cards with the letter cards correctly. The board game is suitable for players aged 15 and over. It takes 20 minutes to play with 2-4 players. There are two actions in the board game: Action 1: Players open two matching cards; Action 2: Player uses a special card. The board game consists of the game box, game manual, game cards, and playing tools. The reflection after the experiment on this game with the target group found that after the players played this game, their critical thinking skills on economic activities were significantly higher than before playing at the 0.05 level, and the players had average satisfaction towards the board game at the highest level ( =4.50).
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