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Formative Potential of the Development and Assessment of an Educational Escape Room Designed to Integrate Music-Mathematical Knowledge

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Piñero Charlo, José Carlos, Ortega García, Paula, Román García, Sara·2021·Education Sciences
DOI 10.3390/educsci11030131
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In the particular case of Spain, student and teacher difficulties associated with the mathematical discipline have been evidenced in PISA and TEDS-M reports. As we consider that the teachers’ difficulties are connected to the students’ performance, we propose a multi-disciplinary approach to deliver specific didactic/mathematical knowledge to the trainee teachers. Such additional instruction shall be meaningfully connected to the real needs of the schools, so a service-learning approach is proposed here. In the present manuscript, the trainee teachers have co-designed educational escape rooms (in coordination with local schools) with the aim of mobilizing curricular knowledge. The goal of the educational escape rooms is to foster the mathematic-related competencies by establishing meaningful connections to other curricular disciplines (music-related knowledge, in the case of this study). This paper reports on the particular experience developed with a group of students (trainee teachers) while designing their educational escape rooms, focusing on the particular case of a specific student to evidence the formative potential of the procedure. The didactic suitability of the proposed escape room has been analyzed and professional development has also been discussed, showing the mobilization of relevant professional skills and fostering the related music and mathematical didactic competencies by shifting the teaching perspective from an algorithmic point of view to a more “reasoning and designing” strategy. This constitutes an evidence of the formative potential on the co-design of educational escape rooms, when designed in the frame of a service learning approach.

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  • Educational escape activities (EEAs) have shown great value in terms of engagement, motivation, and learner outcomes.

    “EEAs are reported to be positively perceived among students 6,9,11,13,14 and have shown great value in terms of engagement, 6,11 -14 motivation, 6,7,12,14 and learner outcomes. 7,8,10”

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    The Conclusions report that previous educational escape-room experiences fostered motivation and that co-designing escape rooms developed trainee teachers’ skills and knowledge. Section 4.4.5 also describes evidence of emotional suitability from earlier experiences. But this paper says its specific escape-room proposal could not be implemented, so it does not demonstrate improved learning outcomes for the schoolchildren who would have played it. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Piñero Charlo, J. C., Ortega García, P., & Román García, S.
Affiliations
  • Departamento de Didáctica, área de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Spain
  • Departamento de Didáctica de la Educación Física, Plástica y Musical, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Spain
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Venue
Education Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-03-18
Volume
11
Issue
3
Pages
131
ISSN
2227-7102 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/educsci11030131
OpenAlex
W3137268021
Cited by
23
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Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2
FWCI
6.87
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Education Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • RODIN (Universidad de Cádiz) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Universidad de Cádiz (sol-201900138517-tra, PR2017-013)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
Keywords
educational escape rooms, pre-service teachers, teacher professional development, service-learning, co-design, interdisciplinary teaching, mathematical ability, professional development

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