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Prodromou, Theodosia; Kynigos, Chronis – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This study focuses on pre-service teachers' experimentation with a game-modding process in a constructionist setting whilst they experimented with randomness embedded in wider socio-scientific issues that call for decision making under uncertainty. In this process, participants created 39 different game mods. Our observations of the participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Constructivism (Learning)
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Göktepe Yildiz, Sevda; Göktepe Körpeoglu, Seda – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2019
The choice of instructional strategies, methods and techniques used by teachers is important in terms of establishing an effective learning environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the most common methods teachers use in their lessons and the factors that influence their choice of methods by using game theory. Game theory has different…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Game Theory, Direct Instruction
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Williams, Skip M.; Hannon, James C. – Physical Educator, 2018
This study compared physical activity levels of junior high school physical education students participating in coeducational and same-sex PE classes that followed the Tactical Games Model. A total of 446 students, aged 11 to 16 years old, enrolled in the seventh to ninth grades from one junior high school participated. Each student participated…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Coeducation, Physical Education, Educational Games
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Pérez Garcias, Adolfina; Marín, Victoria I. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2016
The knowledge society has brought many possibilities for open education practices and, simultaneously, deep ethical challenges related to the use, sharing and reuse of digital content. In fact, even at university level, many undergraduate students do not respect the licences of digital resources. As part of the contents of a third-year educational…
Descriptors: Ethics, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Electronic Publishing
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Misfeldt, Morten – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
In this paper I describe how students use a project management simulation game based on an attack-defense mechanism where two teams of players compete by challenging each other's projects. The project management simulation game is intended to be played by pre-service construction workers and engineers. The gameplay has two parts: a planning part,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Learner Engagement, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Program Administration
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Byun, Chong Hyun Christie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The importance of active learning in the classroom has been well established in the field of Economic education. This paper examines the connection between active learning and performance outcomes in an Economics 101 course. Students participated in single play simultaneous move game with a clear dominant strategy, modeled after the Prisoner's…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Activities, Correlation, Performance Based Assessment
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Antequera, A. T.; Espinel, M. C. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
The aim of this study is twofold. The first is to investigate the ability of secondary school students to understand the different distribution schemes and thus, indirectly, to contribute to the educational discussion and approach to be used for distribution problems so as to lessen reliance on the ubiquitous cross-multiplication rule in…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Academically Gifted, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
Ahrens, A.; Zascerinska, J. – Online Submission, 2012
The sustainable development of society has attracted a lot of research efforts. A strategic aspect to the society's evolution is introduced by the game theory (Fernandez, 2011, p. 1). The research question is as follows: how to organize the process of teaching and learning in education for sustainable development? The aim of the research is to…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Sustainable Development, English for Academic Purposes, Fundamental Concepts
Broodryk, Retief; van den Berg, Pieter Hendrick – Online Submission, 2011
The aims of this study were firstly to determine the players' perceptions of their respective coaches' coaching effectiveness and secondly, determine the difference between big and small schools of the players' perceptions of their respective coaches' coaching effectiveness. Four hundred and seventy six players from 22 schools were asked to fill…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness, High Schools
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Wright, Steven; McNeill, Mike; Fry, Joan M. – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
This study examined the teaching of games via a tactical approach (also known as teaching games for understanding) from the theoretical perspective of social constructivism. A pilot study (of student teachers (STs) and pupils) informed the "main" study which included collecting data on 49 STs, 58 cooperating teachers (CTs) and 1177 pupils. ST data…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Games, Questionnaires, Interviews
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Chuang, Tsung-Yen; Chen, Wei-Fan – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
This experimental study investigated whether computer-based video games facilitate children's cognitive learning. In comparison to traditional computer-assisted instruction (CAI), this study explored the impact of the varied types of instructional delivery strategies on children's learning achievement. One major research null hypothesis was…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Coe, Paul R.; Alonzi, Loreto Peter; Condon, Daniel; Butterworth, William T. – PRIMUS, 2007
Prisoner's Dilemma is a common game theory scenario in which two players must choose between acting cooperatively or out of pure self-interest. What a player decides affects not only his own outcome but also that of the other player. "Friend or Foe," a TV game show that has appeared on the cable Game Show Network (GSN), places pairs of contestants…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Trusts (Financial), Television, Teamwork
Woloshin, Phyllis Lerman – 1977
An experiment using game-theory to teach a unit on "fallacies" in logic was conducted at Oakton Community College. One experimental and two control group lecture-style classes were taught by three teachers using the same text and final test. The experimental class, after an introductory segment presented in lecture style, were involved in a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Educational Games, Experimental Teaching
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Ruohomaki, Virpi – Simulation & Gaming, 2003
This article introduces development and design approaches to organizational change (DIL). Simulation games can be used for promoting organizational development. They offer an arena for organization members to analyze the present state of an organization and create new organizational solutions. The bridge between the present and future mode of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Organizational Change, Information Technology, Organizational Development
Olmstead, Joseph A.; Elder, B. Leon – 1978
A research project was undertaken to provide a foundation for future research on the efficacy of games and simulations for use in training and assessing junior company-grade officers working in administrative, nontactical support, and staff jobs. Based on survey interviews with nineteen incumbents of Finance, Adjutant General, and Quartermaster…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Education, Catalogs, Competency Based Education