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    Collaborative Educational Game for Thai Primary School Students

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    English language, Mathematics and Sciencefor life are mandatory subjects for Thai students to finish theirprimary school studies. Regarding the unsatisfied result of theannual assessment, there are many students fail those subjectsevery year. This paper thus proposes the educational computergame to enhance learning of English language, Mathematics andSciences subjects. The proposed game employs the concept ofcollaborative learning integrated into the game to promote thebetter understanding of contents and the familiarization of teamwork experience, while the players are still filled with the joy andthe challenge. The proposed game is designed as a multi-playersonline game. All players compete among each other to be a leaderand conduct the game along with help from team members toachieve the goal. The developed game is evaluated with 2 aspectsincluding the learning efficiency and the satisfaction of students.The empirical study is conducted with 100 students from 3different primary schools in Chiang Rai, Thailand. These studentsare divided into 2 groups including the group playing gameindividually and collaboratively respectively. The first group has25 students while the second group has 15 groups with 5 studentsper each. The results reveal that, the students playing gamecollaboratively can achieve higher learning efficiency than thestudents playing game individually. Moreover, the collaborativegame obtains Good satisfaction level by the students
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