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Document Type

Research Paper

Abstract

The present research examined children's social interactions in cooperative and competitive play. Participants were twenty-two first and second grade students (eleven girls and eleven boys) from a public elementary school in Northern Iowa. In this study, participants' social interactions were observed while playing the game Food Fun!, both cooperatively and competitively. A coding system was used to assess the cooperative and uncooperative behaviors. Using pre-test and posttest questionnaires, the researchers assessed participants' knowledge of the food group pyramid. As expected, after playing the game Food Fun!, children showed significant improvement in their knowledge of the food group pyramid. Contrary to the researchers' hypotheses, there were no significant differences in children's social behavior in the cooperative and competitive version of the game. Lastly, there was no significant difference for the preference.

Publication Date

2000

Journal Title

Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference

Volume

4

Issue

1

First Page

96

Last Page

102

Copyright

©2000 by the University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Publisher

University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

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