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Sacide G. Mazman Akar; Murat Özer – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study explores the influence of digital literacy, parental styles, and background variables on digital game addiction among elementary school students. Given the formative nature of early childhood and the significant role of parental influence, understanding these relationships is essential to promoting healthy digital habits. The sample…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Games, Addictive Behavior, Elementary School Students
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Feng, Mengmeng; Zhou, Guangdong – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
This study investigated the longitudinal trajectories of peer rejection and their predictive effects on Internet gaming addiction among Chinese children. The sample comprised 818 students from Grades 1 to 3 (M = 8.30, SD = 1.11, 51.3% boys). Peer rejection was assessed using peer nominations in five waves over a period of 2.5 years, and Internet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Nguyen, Huy Anh; Hou, Xinying; Richey, J. Elizabeth; McLaren, Bruce M. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
There is an established gender gap in middle school math education, where female students report higher anxiety and lower engagement, which negatively impact their performance and even long-term career choices. This work investigates the role of digital learning games in addressing this issue by studying Decimal Point, a math game that teaches…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Middle School Students, Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction
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Belda-Medina, Jose; Calvo-Ferrer, José Ramón – Education Sciences, 2022
There is a good body of literature about digital-game-based language learning (DGBL), but research has mainly focused on students as game players rather than as future educators. This paper reports on a research conducted among 154 teacher candidates at a higher-education institution in Spain regarding the adoption of digital games in education.…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Preservice Teachers, Educational Games
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Yeo, Jun-Hui; Cho, I.-Hsuan; Hwang, Gwo-Haur; Yang, Hsi-Hsun – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Gender and prior knowledge may affect students' performance and motivation when simulations and games are used for learning. Accommodations should be made for students of different genders and with different levels of prior knowledge. A simulation digital game about the food chain concept geared for elementary school students was developed for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Prior Learning, Food, Biology
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Alicia Ndegwa; Mar Gutiérrez-Colón; Marni Manegre – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The on-going implementation of the new curriculum of the new education system in Kenya includes the administration of technology in the classroom. In this study, this was achieved through the use of a gamified app in a local private school in Kenya, a gamified Swahili app. As Swahili is the language that is Kenya's national and one of two official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, African Languages, Comparative Analysis
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Baek, Youngkyun; Touati, Achraf – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
This article reports an empirical study that explores gender differences in both cooperative and collaborative social gaming in relation to achievements and attitudes. Another aim was to compare students' game attitudes, feelings toward group work, and achievements in cooperative versus collaborative digital game-based learning environments. One…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Games, Play
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Mehmet Oktay Kablan; Mehmet Imamoglu – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of gender, the number of siblings, and grade level on digital game playing motivation and addiction levels in secondary school students and to reveal the relationship between digital game motivation and addiction. A total of 394 students, 168 boys and 226 girls, participated in the study…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Eating Habits, Secondary School Students, Grade 5
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Hazar, Zekihan – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between digital game addiction and the motivation for digital game-playing, and to develop suggestions towards the solution of the research problem through the relationship between these two concepts. The study is designed according to the quantitative research method and the relational…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Addictive Behavior, Motivation, Elementary School Students
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Cheng, Yung-Hsun; Hsu, Shih-Lung – Youth & Society, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether gender traits have any influence on the awareness of cultural codes, the motivation of playing online games, and the degrees of commitment for primary school upper graders. Of 390 students surveyed in Taiwan, a total of 364 questionnaires were returned with 356 being considered valid. The main…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences, Masculinity, Femininity
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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
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Perasso, Giulia; Carone, Nicola; Barone, Lavinia – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
The present study investigated the antecedents of cyberbullying victimization and addressed the commonalities and differences between visual and written forms of cyberbullying victimization among 3172 Italian adolescents (51.6% male, M[subscript age] = 13.74 years, SD = 1.70) who participated in the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Adolescents
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Güler, Mehmet Sirin; Çakir, Ergün – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Participation of children in physical activity has decreased and the interest in digital games has increased in recent years as a result of development of internet and technological devices. This research has been done in order to determine the motivation of elementary school students for participating in physical activity and digital game…
Descriptors: Correlation, Computer Games, Motivation, Physical Activity Level
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Ellison, Mark; Drew, Christopher – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
There is a persistent "gender gap" in boys' literacy in the United Kingdom. This article reports on one technology-based intervention that may aid teachers in supporting boys to develop creativity within their writing. Boys from a Year 3 class used Minecraft -- a sandbox computer game -- to create virtual worlds that might help them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Game Based Learning, Creativity, Males
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Nguyen, Huy Anh; Hou, Xinying; Stamper, John; McLaren, Bruce M. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
A challenge in digital learning games is assessing students' learning behaviors, which are often intertwined with game behaviors. How do we know whether students have learned enough or needed more practice at the end of their game play? To answer this question, we performed post hoc analyses on a prior study of the game "Decimal Point,"…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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