Investigating the Effectiveness of Serious Games in Teaching Architecture and the Process of Learning of Architectural design ǁ Students in Undergraduate course

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of educational games in the main courses of architecture (architectural design) in undergraduate studies, on the level of mental perception and promotion of the learning process.Architectural colleges specifically use workshops as the main teaching tool. Conceptually, the workshop is a process of learning through practice, in which students are exposed to solving a series of design problems. Therefore, finding new educational solutions in studios is considered that can improve the process of learning.The current research is applied in terms of purpose, descriptive in terms of data collection and descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection, which was conducted experimentally with pre-test-post-test design with control group. The statistical population of this study was students of two architectural designs of the first semester of the 99-98 academic year of the Islamic Azad University, Parand Branch, sixty of whom were randomly selected to participate in this study and were tested and controlled in two groups of thirty. The case group was trained in a playful way. Strop test was used to collect data, the content validity of which was confirmed by experts . The reliability of time and error were examined and both sections were obtained at the appropriate and acceptable level . Data collected from the test were organized in the form of statistical tables and SPSS.22 software was used for statistical analysis of the obtained data.Since the speed of brain function and accuracy of the students in the case group at the end of the study was significantly different from the control group it can be concluded that serious games in the main courses of architecture have been effective in increasing the perception and promotion of learning , so this study suggests using this method in architectural design courses.