RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this study, following results were gotten by gathering teachers’ and students’ thoughts about the “Space
Hunters” game.
• It was found that teachers’ opinions were similar about the evaluation activity which took place in this
study would increase the students’ motivation. Also Pinder (2008) determined that board games were
very effective to increase students’ motivation according to teacher thoughts in a study.
• Most of the teachers stated that this game could be applied during the lesson and be used for
reinforcement. According to Güllü, Bozkurt and Bali’s (2009) study, teachers thought that educational
games could be used in lessons.
• Participating teachers stated that they didn’t have difficulties in understanding games like this. But some
teachers expressed they hesitated about how they could use it as an evaluation activity. It can be
planned to develop a grading key for putting away teachers’ this problem.
• It was found that presenting a game like this ready-made would increase the rate of usage. Then
correspondents’ attention must be called to this subject as soon as possible.
• It was found that traditional evaluating methods were usually used at lessons and some of the students
couldn’t express themselves because of their negative emotions during these activities. But it is seen
that these negative emotions decreased during the activity with the game in this study.
• It was seen that students who played this game didn’t have difficulty in understanding the rules and they
quite enjoyed this game. It is the most important indication of this situation that students wanted the
number of puzzle parts and the number of cells to be increased. Also in the other studies it was found
that students were enjoy the game activities (Aycan et. al., 2002, Smith, 2002, Cordona et. al., 2008)