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Reilly Norum; Ji-Eun Lee; Erin Ottmar; Lane Harrison – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Well-designed online educational games can improve students' math knowledge, skills and engagement; however, more research is needed to understand how to formatively assess components of students' mathematical understanding and learning as students solve problems in online educational games. In this study, we examined how 7th-grade students' (N =…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Skills
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Kirk Vanacore; Adam Sales; Alison Liu; Erin Ottmar – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Persisting after experiencing difficulty allows students to work in the upper ends of their zones of proximal development, where most learning occurs (Ventura et al., 2013; Vygotsky & Cole, 1978). Digital educational games promote productive persistence by allowing students to repeat the same or similar problems until they reach…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Game Based Learning, Failure, Algebra