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Educational games are ideal for engaging students with course content.
Most students think they are fun and very helpful - though you may find
some students don't actually play the games but prefer to just
quiz each other using the questions you provide. Faculty in the School
of Nursing say that students find the games so helpful for studying,
they complain bitterly when units don't have corresponding games!
Games can test deeper levels of understanding than just knowledge repetition. Be
sure your questions require some application or synthesis. Examples:
- A"Family Feud" type of game can ask teams of students to
list assessment techniques for a patient complaining of a dry cough.
- In matching games (Memory, Bingo, Crosswords), instead of asking
students to match a term and a definition, give them a vital statistic
and ask them to match it with the condition(s) it indicates. Change
things up by including "Normal" as one of the conditions.
- In trivia games, ask NCLEX-type questions that require students to
apply knowledge, not just recite information.
General tips
- The quality of your game depends primarily on the quality of your
questions.
- Quiz games like Jeopardy are best for interaction
and self-assessment. They don’t work well for content delivery
or final assessment.
- Games
be played with or without a computer. You might use your computer
to prepare the game (e.g., printing out quiz cards) but have students
play with paper during a face-to-face class.
Where to get questions for quiz games
- Make them up
- Use NCLEX questions provided with textbooks.
- Use test bank questions from textbooks or the publisher's web site
- Chapter review questions in the textbook
- Look online or contact colleagues
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