The Effects of SDE Strategy-based Computer Games on Metacognitive Awareness

Abstract

Some studies show that game-based learning can raise learners’ motivation to attract learners into learning activities, and students’ metacognitive awareness is an important factor of learning performance. The SDE strategy is considered to be the form of self-dialogue learning, which can help learners to reflect and monitor the self-learning states. Therefore, in this study we proposed a SDE strategy-based computer game for learning the fraction course of the fifth grade. This study adapts a quasi-experimental design, where the students were randomly assigned to two groups. The results showed that the SDE strategy was helpful to the learners’ control and reflection on the self-learning state, so that the learners could clarify the concept of fraction in the learning process, and thus achieve learning goals.