How strategy video games affect one's evaluation of arguments skills in critical thinking

• Main Authors: De los Santos, Kristina Monique G., Rigor, Yannis, Tanyag, Bernard Andre A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Video games > Psychological aspects; Computer games > Psychological aspects; Critical thinking > Problems, exercises, etc.; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11586
• Institution: De La Salle University

The present study aims to see how strategy video games affect ones evaluations of arguments in critical thinking skills. The Instruments used to test the researchers hypothesis that strategy video games do affect evaluation of arguments in critical thinking skills was a test called The Watson Glaser critical thinking appraisal. The researchers gathered 225 participants ages 18-25 from De La Salle University for this experiment, all of which were divided into three groups. One in which played the strategy video game- Warcraft3 Frozen Zone, the second group played the luck based card game and the third group did nothing for ten minutes before answering the critical thinking test. T- test and ANOVA were used to determine the results. The results section will show the scores of the participants and the overall outcome of the test results, along with the results of its statistical data. It is based on the 225 test scores of the 225 participants that took the evaluation of arguments critical thinking test