Mobile serious games: Effects on students’ understanding of programming concepts and attitudes towards information technology

The purpose of this study was to measure the impacts of mobile serious games on fifth grade students’ attitudes towards “Information Technology and Software” course and understanding of programming concepts. For this purpose, a five weeks long study was conducted in a private primary school in Turkey with randomly selected 36 fifth grade students. Twenty-one students that were in the experiment group played the mobile serious game Lightbot,...