Assessing the Impact of Mobile Educational Games on Student’s Success within Mathematics Subject in Primary Schools

The research focus is set in investigating the impact of educational games as instructional strategy in student's success within the course of Mathematics in High School. In order to assess the impact we have developed a mathematical mobile Game for Android Devices, to be used as a case study, and assessed the students' achievements. We have used quantitative research methodology and as research method used a questionnaire to collect the data. We collected the data before and after playing the game, so we can assess the difference of the time spent on educational games and the level of transferred knowledge. The system is expected to help high school students to easily orient and engage during lecture classes and easily find and use the learning content. The system has been evaluated on its functionalities and the usability, on two groups of users, one group with computer science background and the second group of users as novices with different field background. Afterwards we used regression analyses to determine the impact. The research study tries to contribute with identified impacting factors for such systems, analyses of the improvement in user friendliness, and usability. Insights and recommendations are provided.