An empirical study on vocational school students: games experience and success relation

Abstract

Within the scope of this study, games playing experiences of vocational school students is examined to specify the most favored video game classifications that were played as a technician candidate and its contribution to their education. A questionnaire methodology is chosen and questions are randomly distributed to the vocational school students. This technique is applied to 221 technician candidates to work out their past video game preferences before becoming a member of technician department. The analysis of the questionnaire results indicates that the top three games classes in the interest of vocational school students are: Strategy, Sports and Simulation. But then, it is also ascertained that the less played types are: Art Games, Action – Adventure and music games. Moreover, results of the analysis are compared with the students weighted points. Outcomes are striking that there is a stable correlation between the students playing strategy games and their success points..