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Chen, Hsiu-Ling; Wu, Cheng-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The present research examined the effect of digital role-playing game-based learning on high school students' critical thinking ability. Playing a digital game designed with RPG Maker and whose story lines featured critical thinking questions, a total of 32 high school student participants were given a learning context to practice critical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Games, Video Games, Role Playing
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Wang, Annie; Thompson, Meredith; Roy, Dan; Pan, Katharine; Perry, Judy; Tan, Philip; Eberhart, Rik; Klopfer, Eric – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study focuses on an educational game titled "Cellverse," a two-player cross-platform VR project intended to teach high school biology students about cell structure and function. In "Cellverse," players work in pairs to explore a human lung cell and diagnose and treat a dangerous genetic disorder. "Cellverse" is…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Instructional Design
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Riemer, Valentin; Schrader, Claudia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study investigates how students' competition preference as a trait variable, in conjunction with students' state self-monitoring, affects learning outcome when learning with a serious game. In particular, it is investigated whether competition preference moderates the relation between self-monitoring and learning outcome. For the study, 86…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Games, Student Characteristics, Self Management
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Ji-Eun Lee; Amisha Jindal; Sanika Nitin Patki; Ashish Gurung; Reilly Norum; Erin Ottmar – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This paper demonstrated how to apply Machine Learning (ML) techniques to analyze student interaction data collected in an online mathematics game. Using a data-driven approach, we examined 1) how different ML algorithms influenced the precision of middle-school students' (N = 359) performance (i.e. posttest math knowledge scores) prediction and 2)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Algorithms, Mathematics Tests, Computer 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
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Yildirim, Ibrahim; Sen, Sedat – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Whether gamification is an organized structure that contributes to student achievement, a simple pontification process or total nonsense is a matter of debate. In such, this study was conducted to provide a scientific answer while exhibiting the gamification effect on student achievement with the meta-analysis method, which is based on…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Önal, Nezih; Çevik, Kerim Kürsat; Senol, Veysel – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
The aim of this study is to demonstrate effectiveness of mobile game called SOS Table in the context of the subject "Tenses in English" within the framework of mobile learning tools acceptance, learning language motivation and mobile learning attitude of the students. The target group of the research consists of preparatory class…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Games, Teaching Methods
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Clark, Douglas B.; Sengupta, Pratim – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
This paper situates a critical review of studies that we have conducted within the broader research literature to analyze the affordances of integrating modeling within disciplinarily-integrated games from computational thinking and science as practice perspectives. Across the studies, the analyses pursue two themes: (a) the role of agent-based…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Thinking Skills, Computer Games, Science Education
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Greer, Mary; Lin, Lijia; Atkinson, Robert K. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine whether playing "Quest for the Code"™, a computer game designed to teach children about asthma, would help healthy children acquire knowledge about and attitudes towards asthma and whether the beneficial effects would be maintained over time. The sample consisted of 155 children from four middle…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Diseases, Health Education
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Cheng, Ya-Wen; Wang, Yuping; Cheng, I-Ling; Chen, Nian-Shing – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Collaborative learning has long been proved to be a crucial agent for enhancing students' social skills, problem-solving abilities and individual learning performance. Understanding how students move from one phase to another in their collaboration process can inform educators of how best to facilitate such learning. However, this is still an area…
Descriptors: Interaction, Computer Simulation, Mathematics Activities, Computer Games
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Dickey, Michele D. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers' perceptions of the integration of digital games for K-12 education. Specifically, this qualitative investigation focuses on reflective dialogued gathered from a group of K-12 educators about their experiences and perceptions of learning about and playing digital games for teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Qualitative Research, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Chang, Shao-Chen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
In this study, a mission synchronization-based peer-assistance approach is proposed to improve students' learning performance in digital game-based learning activities. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, an experiment has been conducted in an elementary school natural science course to examine the participants' learning…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning
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Pellas, Nikolaos – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The combination of Open Sim and Scratch4OS can be a worthwhile innovation for introductory programming courses, using a Community of Inquiry (CoI) model as a theoretical instructional design framework. This empirical study had a threefold purpose to present: (a) an instructional design framework for the beneficial formalization of a virtual…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Communities of Practice, Computer Simulation, High School Students