Development of ATP Generator Board Game to Enhance Grade 11 Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Cellular Respiration
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Board game, Cellular respiration, Conceptual understanding, ATP GeneratorAbstract
The purposes of this research were to 1) develop ATP Generator Board Game to enhance Grade 11 students' conceptual understanding of cellular respiration, 2) investigate the effects of playing ATP Generator Board Game on the development of students' conceptual understanding of cellular respiration, and 3) to examine Grade 11 students’ opinions toward playing the ATP Generator Board Game. The participants consisted of 75 Grade 11 students from two Science-Mathematics program classrooms at an extra-large school in Nakhon Pathom Province during the 2025 academic year. The research instruments included 1) the ATP Generator Board Game, 2) a 15-item four-choice conceptual understanding test on cellular respiration, and 3) a 10-item five-point Likert scale questionnaire. Data were analyzed using mean, percentage, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values, and t-test. The research findings revealed that 1) The ATP Generator Board Game was a strategy planning game in which players had to plan to complete missions to produce as much ATP as possible by exchanging various resource tokens according to the chemical reactions specified in different zones of cellular respiration. 2) after playing the game, students' conceptual understanding of cellular respiration was significantly higher than the pre-test scores and exceeded the 60% criterion at the .05 level of significance. 3) overall, students’ opinions toward playing the board game were at a high level.
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