Jogo para avaliação da criatividade e do pensamento crítico de alunos do ensino básico

Abstract

In order to build people capable of adapting to changes in society, while participating in it as active subjects, it is necessary that education is also transformed and adapted to this new world. Currently, innovation presents itself as a determining factor for a professional or company to be successful. In this scenario, education needs to not only be responsible for imparting knowledge related to curricular subjects, but also be capable of developing competences in favor of innovation. With this objective, research areas such as the innovation pedagogy, develop methodologies and tools aimed to develop and assess innovation skills in students. In addition, the National Common Curricular Base of Brazil presents skills, competences and attitudes that should be worked on by all students in the country’s basic education. However, these skills cannot be assessed using traditional assessments, such as paper and pen tests. Thus, there is a need to develop a way of assessing competences in students of basic education. In this work, a game was developed with the objective of evaluating two among the different competences of innovation in students of the final grades of elementary school: creativity and critical thinking. The developed game is a tower defense, in which the player cannot allow enemies to go beyond a part of the map. The product has been validated through testing with real users. During the execution of the game, the player’s actions were captured and transformed into scores, which represented his ability against different abilities. In addition, the player responded to a form, which presents a self-assessment of their performance in the game. To obtain the results, they were compared to data found in tests for three different levels of education: elementary, secondary and higher education. In addition to the relationship between these data and those found for the same education levels in the self-assessment. The developed game showed to be adequate for the target audience, both in relation to its difficulty and in relation to the understanding of the game mechanics. The scores obtained are also similar to the data found in the self-assessment, which demonstrates that the tool has a capacity as an instrument to assess competences. Possibilities for improving the tool and adding new features were also presented, serving as a basis for future work. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]