The effectiveness of board game towards soft skills development for higher education

The effectiveness of board game towards soft skills development for higher education

The effectiveness of board game towards soft skills development for higher education

Teh Yuan, Mohammad Zukuwwan Zainol Abidin, Puteri Azwa Ahmad, Shanizan Herman Mohd Radzi

Abstract

“The aim of  this study is  to present a  board game design  which are based  on the  hotel management concepts, and assess its effectiveness towards soft skills  development for higher education. Soft skills  play a major  role during  social interaction in  the society as  well as maintaining a  successful career. 5-ST☆R: The  Hotel Management Game was proposed as  a platform to  develop soft  skills among students in higher learning as to implement game-based learning and simulation-based learning for post-learning activity. A  quasi-experimental research design was  used as to  measure the effectiveness of the board game in the development of soft skills. A sample of 64 students were being selected and assigned into two groups, one of which used the board game (Experimental, n = 32), while the other are the non-gaming  (Control,  n  =  32).  A  questionnaire  was  used  in  the  pre-test  and post-test  phase.  During  the intervention  session, students  were  being observed  and  their scores  and objectives  achieved for  each game  session  were  recorded.  Data  analysis  from  the  study  support  that  the  use  of  board  game  was effective in the development  of the respondents’  soft skills. The results  from  the study recommend that within  the higher  learning  environment, the  use of  board  game can  be exploited  as an  effective post-learning  activity  as  the  students  also  may be  able  to  discover  the  knowledge  on  its own  in  a  non-threatening environment”.

Reference

Radzi, S. H. B. M., Ying, T. Y., Abidin, M. Z. Z., & Ahmad, P. A. (2020). The effectiveness of board game towards soft skills development for higher education. Elementary Education Online, 19(2), 94-106. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348213416_The_effectiveness_of_board_game_towards_soft_skills_development_for_higher_education

Keywords

Board Game, Game-Based Learning, stimulation-based learning