Estimation of Educational Effects on Children Engaged in Nature Games: Text Mining Analysis for Chat Records
Abstract
In order to estimate the effects of environmental education such as nature games, pre and post questionnaires are widely used. However, questionnaire including facilitating questions occasionally leads subjective evaluation. Hence, more objective and quantitative approaches are required to obtain accurate evaluation. In this study, we developed a text mining approach for chat records of learners engaged in nature games as a feasible method to estimate the effect of environmental education.
We offered a nature game aimed at supporting to discover a biodiversity in the CHINO BITOPE FOREST which recreates vanishing traditional landscape in Japan. In this game, learners committed to explore wild flowers and/or colors in the field. We obtained chat records from 12 learners, and performed a text mining analysis by using KH coder. The words obtained from a morphological analysis were classified into 5 categories as "Find targets in nature", "Analyze the finds", "Exciting", "Engage in the game", and "Lose interests in the game". In the nature game, children found many objects such as "flower", "fallen leaf", and "water strider". We corded these nouns in the category of "Find targets in nature". In 5 categories, the words corded in "Find targets in nature" shared a large proportion of the chat records, suggesting that this game made children to aware a diversity in nature. Moreover, significant positive correlations (p<0.001) were observed in the frequencies among "Find targets in nature", "Exciting", and "Engage in the game". A motivation cycle could be derived from a scheme with finding, exciting, and engagement in learning.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMED31D1086K
- Keywords:
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- 0805 Elementary and secondary education;
- EDUCATIONDE: 0810 Post-secondary education;
- EDUCATIONDE: 0815 Informal education;
- EDUCATIONDE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment;
- EDUCATION