Conectar Jugando (Connecting Through Play)¶
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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal),q3· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A school-based programme run by its developers in which primary students play selected commercial analogue board games during school hours to train executive functions and support reading and mathematics skills.
Components¶
- Conectar Jugando classroom board-game programme: Conectar Jugando (Connecting Through Play) is a school intervention programme in which students play commercial analogue board games during school hours to train basic executive functions and support academic skills. "The Conectar Jugando Group received 12 gaming sessions over six weeks", each lasting one hour and held twice a week, with students in groups of three to five playing two games face-to-face. Teachers received a manual specifying session organisation and which games to use; commercial games were selected by an expert committee for the executive functions and curriculum competencies they could train. (Nuria Vita-Barrull et al. (2024))
Claims¶
- Playing modern board games in class produced greater pre-post improvement in working-memory updating than regular classes, in both first-grade and second-to-sixth-grade samples [+M]
- The board-game group showed greater pre-post improvement than controls in reading fluency, maths fluency and calculus in grades two to six [+M]
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Key Sources¶
- Nuria Vita-Barrull, Verónica Estrada-Plana, Jaume March-Llanes, Pablo Sotoca-Orgaz, Núria Guzmán, Rosa Ayesa, Jorge Moya-Higueras. (2024). Do you play in class? Board games to promote cognitive and educational development in primary school: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Learning and Instruction, 93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101946
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Conectar Jugando (Connecting Through Play) |
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A school-based programme run by its developers in which primary students play selected commercial analogue board games during school hours to train executive functions and support reading and mathematics skills. |
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