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Directed educational games significantly improve overall social skills of 8-12-year-old educable mentally retarded girls compared with conventional class instruction

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q2 i? After moderation of pre-test scores, the test group trained with educational games had significantly greater social skills scores than the control group taught by the conventional method. → Shakibaei 2013

Evidence

Shakibaei 2013

Shakibaei, Z., Rahimaghaee, F., & Arish, M. (2013). Effect of Educational Games on Social Skills in Iranian Mentally Retarded Children. li-manager's Journal of Educational Psychology, 6(4). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1101771

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Semi-experimental pre-test/post-test study of 20 mentally retarded girls aged 8-12, 10 randomly assigned to each group; ANCOVA on Wailand's social growth scale after a 7-session games intervention. The article reports "a significant effect of factor appeared between queries of both groups"; moderated means were 60.964 (test) versus 48.521 (control).

"Moderated mean scores suggest that the test group (based on performance of the educational games) has significantly greater scores than the control group (conventional method) and thereby, the educational games positively influence the social skills."

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