Online Strategy Game and Its Impact on the Problem-Solving Skills of Students in Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School-Integrated Senior High School S.Y. 2018-2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Strategy skills are the ability to produce effective plans in line with an organization's objectives within a particular economic situation. Strategic thinking helps business managers review policy issues, perform long term planning, set goals, and determine priorities, and identify potential risk and opportunities. Strategic thinking is an effective and valuable tool (encapsulate 2018) one can apply strategic thinking to arrive at decisions that can be related to your work or personal life. The school of ETTMNHS-ISHS does not have this kind of research. Therefore, the researchers need to conduct a survey to the respondents, and the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of strategy skill on online games in their Problem-solving skills.

METHODS

In order to determine the Problem Solving Skill, this research made use of Problem Solving Style Questionnaire (PSSQ). This study made use of a Descriptive Survey design. The researchers collected 48 Grade 12 GAS students whose playing online strategy games were the respondents in the study is selected via purposive sampling.

RESULTS

The result from the Problem Solving Style Questionnaire (PSSQ) revealed that playing online strategy games has an impact on the problem-solving skill, logical and strategic thinking of the students. Majority of the student agree with 3.544 mean that playing online strategy games helps them to develop useful skills such as communication with mean of (3.542), collaboration (3.688), resourcefulness (3.792), adaptability (3.729), cooperation of individual (3.688) and last strategic thinking with mean of (3.542).

DISCUSSIONS

The research study revealed that the majority of the respondents agree that the online strategy games have impact in their problem-solving skills, it helps them to be more objective and logical, they solve the problem efficiently without wasting a lot of time, and it helps them to work as a team and last they analyzing all the facts and put them in systematic order to ease solve their challenges. On the other hand, some of the respondents have a hard-nosed decision and also, they are not comfortable trying to learn new things and they do not enjoy solving new problems. Overall, online strategy games have a great impact on the problem-solving skills of a student in ETTMNHS-ISHS.