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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
Gloria Mittmann; Adam Barnard; Sonja Zehetmayer; Simon Wimmer; Vanessa Zehetner; Sylvia Doerfler; Kate Woodcock; Beate Schrank – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2024
Early adolescence is a major time for friendship development, and interpersonal emotion regulation (iER) is a vital skill for social interactions. Serious games are an exciting way to engage young people with psychoeducational content. The authors developed a serious game teaching iER strategies to early adolescents in an interdisciplinary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Educational Games, Computer Games
McLaren, Bruce M.; Adams, Deanne M.; Mayer, Richard E.; Forlizzi, Jodi – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2017
Excitement about learning from computer-based games has been papable in recent years and has led to the development of many educational games. However, there are relatively few sound empirical studies in the scientific literature that have shown the benefits of learning mathematics from games as opposed to more traditional approaches. The…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students
Denner, Jill; Werner, Linda; Campe, Shannon; Ortiz, Eloy – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2014
Despite the growing popularity of teaching children to program games, little is known about the benefits for learning. In this article, the authors propose that game mechanics can be used as a window into how the children are thinking and describe a strategy for using them to analyze students' games. The study involved sixty 10-14 year old…
Descriptors: Programming, Educational Games, Early Adolescents, Coding