Enhancing Engineering Design Skills and Environmental Awarenessthrough a STEM-Based Educational Game
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Addressing climate change necessitates educational innovations to foster engineering problem-solving skills among youth. This research aims to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of a STEM-based educational game in enhancing engineering design skills and environmental awareness. The participants were 36 eleventh-grade students selected via stratified random sampling. Research instruments included the ‘Zero Carbon’ board game, a situational test for engineering design skills, and an environmental awareness questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a one-sample t-test against an 80% criterion. The findings revealed that the game innovation met the efficiency criteria (E1/E2 = 80.93/83.05). Moreover, students’ post-intervention engineering design skills and environmental awareness were significantly higher than the 80% criterion (p < .05). This study thus confirms that a STEM-based educational game is an effective instrument for developing engineering competencies and fostering sustainable environmental consciousness.
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