Um jogo sério para avaliar o desenvolvimento psicométrico do aprendiz

Abstract

The use of educational tools such as serious games not only promotes greater autonomy but also aims to favor the development and improvement of cognitive and motor skills. The challenge of providing a rich educational experience that captures the student's attention and stimulates their learning in relation to their psychometric development related to intelligence and motor maturity requires the presented content to be engaging and allows the learner to improve their skills unconsciously. Therefore, this study has developed a serious game capable of assessing the learner's psychometric development based on the Laws of Fitts and Hick. The game is named "Memoletrando" as it combines memory and typing tasks that utilize both physical and virtual keyboards for the assessment of psychometric development. The game contains two perspectives: the student and the teacher. The student plays the game based on the information provided from the teacher's perspective. In the teacher's perspective, it is possible to insert, for example, images of cards and words per level. The game was applied in an institution in the region that serves individuals with intellectual disabilities. The application utilized a pre-test and post-test technique. Initially, the students played the game with the assistance of the authors of this study (pre-test), and then they played the game without interference from the facilitators (post-test). Overall, the results statistically show a difference between the pre-test and post-test samples, with the difficult level having the least impact among the samples, and the medium level being the most affected.