Understanding Learning Behaviours in Sorting Algorithm Game

Based on our previous work, our gamification of sorting algorithm learning has been able to support learners to produce better learning outcomes if we compare them to the performance when they learn only in a traditional way - using textbooks. However, the finding does not reveal any specific explanation of how the result could happen. In this research, we make an effort to identify several learning behaviours and examine to what extent they can lead learners to successful learning outcomes. Therefore, we extract several variables as the representation of the learning behaviours and outcomes from the event logs. We calculate the correlations between the variables and identify that: allocating efforts on understanding the algorithms didactically, paying attention to the demo or illustration, spending more time playing, and exerting more attempts to complete the levels correlate significantly and positively with varying magnitudes to the completeness and number of completing the levels.