Desenvolvimento, validação e avaliação do software educativo URIHI

Abstract

Urihi is an educational game which aims to contribute to the education and preservation of the Amazon biome helping elementary school students in the learning of ecological studies aimed at preservation and sustainability as from playful principles. This work had as main objective to evaluate the Urihi Game features arising from the implementation of system testing. The work was specific objectives develop practical testing activities of Urihi game to obtain parameters for possible improvements of the game and identify possibilities and limits of game Urihi taking into consideration acceptance of the target audience. The methodological hiking was mainly based on analysis of the qualitative methodology / quantitative and involved, as well as documentary and bibliographic searches, the search field at the Municipal Elementary School Teaching Salome Carvalho in the municipality of Maraba, where tests with two groups of the third year of elementary school were performed, and questionnaires for game validation as a pedagogical tool. The survey results indicate that the software is organized and functional, but also has the occurrence of small problems and errors in programming, thus forming a feedback used for a future more polished version.