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Mining Big Data to Help Make Informed Decisions for Designing Effective Digital Educational Games
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Liu, Min; Li, Chenglu; Pan, Zilong; Pan, Xin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
More research is needed on how to best use analytics to support educational decisions and design effective learning environments. This study was to explore and mine the data captured by a digital educational game designed for middle school science to understand learners' behavioral patterns in using the game, and to use evidence-based findings to…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
Does Slow and Steady Win the Race?: Clustering Patterns of Students' Behaviors in an Interactive Online Mathematics Game
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Lee, Ji-Eun; Chan, Jenny Yun-Chen; Botelho, Anthony; Ottmar, Erin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Online educational games have been widely used to support students' mathematics learning. However, their effects largely depend on student-related factors, the most prominent being their behavioral characteristics as they play the games. In this study, we applied a set of learning analytics methods (k-means clustering, data visualization) to…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Processes
Does Slow and Steady Win the Race?: Clustering Patterns of Students' Behaviors in an Interactive Online Mathematics Game
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Lee, Ji-Eun; Chan, Jenny Yun-Chen; Botelho, Anthony; Ottmar, Erin – Grantee Submission, 2022
Online educational games have been widely used to support students' mathematics learning. However, their effects largely depend on student-related factors, the most prominent being their behavioral characteristics as they play the games. In this study, we applied a set of learning analytics methods ("k"-means clustering, data…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Processes
The Impacts of Peer Competition-Based Science Gameplay on Conceptual Knowledge, Intrinsic Motivation, and Learning Behavioral Patterns
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Chen, Ching-Huei – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
The present study investigates how the different modes of game-design triggers learning outcomes, focusing on peer learning and intergroup competition. A problem-solving science game was developed to help secondary students to learn about the motion of objects. Participants (N = 110) from an urban middle school were randomly assigned to four…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Computer Games, Competition, Outcomes of Education
Learning Analytics and Computational Techniques for Detecting and Evaluating Patterns in Learning: An Introduction to the Special Issue
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Martin, Taylor; Sherin, Bruce – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
The learning sciences community's interest in learning analytics (LA) has been growing steadily over the past several years. Three recent symposia on the theme (at the American Educational Research Association 2011 and 2012 annual conferences, and the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2012), organized by Paulo Blikstein, led…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Learning Processes, Educational Research, Data Collection
An Examination into the Learning Pattern Preferences of Students in Special Education
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Thone, Jaime L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As educational professionals strive to help students become efficient and effective learners, they must assist in the development of student learning strategies and a greater understanding of the learning process. The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the learning pattern preferences of middle and high school students in general…
Descriptors: Special Education, Preferences, Study Habits, Cognitive Style