Investigating Correlation between Attitude toward Chemistry and Motivation within Educational Digital Game-based Learning

Abstract

Educational digital game-based learning, which is one of emerging pedagogies, could promote students’ motivation. With the benefit of the educational digital game-based learning, in this study, the educational digital game was designed for learning chemistry. To investigate the effect of attitude toward chemistry lesson on students’ motivation when they learn by using educational digital game, the study was conducted on eleventh grade students. The results show that attitude of interest in chemistry lesson makes students understanding and learning chemistry. The importance of chemistry in real-life, chemistry and occupational choice were not related to students’ motivation in attention, relevance, confident and satisfaction. Moreover, the students have a positive effect motivation after playing the educational digital game. To this end, this study concludes that the use of educational digital game-based learning could support students’ motivation even they have a positive or negative attitude in learning.