Week 3 (2/23/17)

Another week of more testing! Since President's Day was on Monday, BASIS was closed so there was not any testing on that day. However, when Tuesday rolled around, the participants played a special version of tag that I like to call, "Shield Tag". This version of tag was adapted from the tag variant, "Chicken Tag" that I found online.

The rules of Shield Tag include the basic components of normal tag. Just like a regular game of tag, there is one person (the tagger) who tries to tag someone else. Once a new person is tagged, he/she is the new tagger and the process repeats. However, the unique aspect of Shield Tag is that the non-tagger players have access to a ball (the Chicken Tag version had a rubber chicken) that would protect its holder from being tagged. This ball could be passed to other non-tagger players so that these players could work together in order to protect themselves from the tagger.

After Tuesday, the VG participants continued to play matches in Vainglory and their statistics were recorded. I have also been working on a brief survey that I will give to all of the participants during the last week of the testing.

Week 2 (2/16/17)

During the second week of testing, the Video Game Participants continued playing Vainglory and more stats have been obtained from each match. Additionally, more fifth graders have been registered as participants for both groups.

On Tuesday (2/14/17), participants in both groups competed in Three Legged Races. Although maintaining order was not too easy with excited and energetic fifth graders, two different matches were played where each match had four competing teams (2 VG group and 2 NVG group). Each team's time to complete the race was recorded for data collection purposes. Although I could release the data right now, I'll hold off until later. However, the data was not too surprising...even with all of the occasional trips and falls.

Week 1 (2/8/17)

Concerning my Senior Research Project (SRP) so far, I have registered 5th grade Late Bird students as participants. We have already begun testing on 2/7 where members of the Video Game (VG) Group are working together while playing, Vainglory. I have been recording their in-game statistics for data collection purposes.

I am planning to begin testing the Non Video Game (NVG) Group next week and will have them play one of the planned "Sport-like Games" which include:

- Capture the Flag

- Tag

- Three-Legged Races

Additionally, I have been working with Mrs. Dunn to register more Late Bird students so that there can be more participants to obtain valuable research from.