A recent study that comes from Scotland claims that children who play video game on regular basis might have a good chance to better their concentration, behavior and math attainment.

Students in around 32 schools were studied by the researchers with Learning and Teaching Scotland through the help of the Brain Training from Dr Kawashima game on the Nintendo DS every day. 

Last year, a pilot study was held in Dundee, and the present LTS study served as a follow up to find out if the results were simulated on a wider term.

During the course of this study, two groups were formed, in one group; children were made to play Brain Training game for 20 minutes at the beginning of class for nine weeks. On the other hand, the controlled group contained students who continued to take their lessons in the normal and traditional manner.

Researchers were astonished to find out that though all the groups had bettered in their scores, an improvement in scores by 50% was achieved by the group using the game.

Other than this a double decrease in the time to complete the tests was seen in the children who played the game than the children in the controlled group. Also it didn’t matter whether the game was played at home or at school and whether girl played it or boy. Moreover, in some classes, there was decrease in absence and late comings.

Derek Robertson, LTS’s national adviser for emerging technologies and learning, said, “Computer games help flatten out the hierarchy that exists in schools - they are in the domain of the learner as opposed to the domain of the school. This intervention encouraged all children to engage and get success in a different contextual framework; one in which they don't know their place.”