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de Vero, Ivo; Barr, Matthew – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
Designing an intervention that can effectively develop critical thinking skills is challenging because of the problems of transfer and domain specificity. The authors describe the design and development of a text-based game that could teach players important critical thinking skills in the domain of history. This was achieved by combining Schon's…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Game Based Learning, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Pérez Cortés, Luis E.; Gao, Yuchan; Kessner, Taylor M.; Bernier, Jeremy; Gee, Elisabeth R. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
Designing games from the ground up is a popular activity for helping students think in designerly ways. Despite their benefits, such game design activities may place higher-than-anticipated demands on cognitive and institutional resources. In an effort to alleviate these demands, this study explored how playing and fixing partially completed games…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Design, Play, Problem Solving