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Wu, Yishin Chu – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Bullying is one of the most common yet tolerated forms of violence. "BREAKAWAY" is an educational game purposefully designed to use entertainment-education and digital gaming to help youth around the world to learn about different types of bullying and coping strategies. This dissertation reports the design and results of a pilot study…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Games, Computer Games, Coping
Blanton, Eric Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The integration of technology within the lives of all people has continued to expand and also impacts the education systems around the world. The purpose of this study was to study how real-time data impacted the educational achievement of students in a senior level economics class who participated in game-based learning through the Marketwatch…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learner Engagement, Comprehension, Educational Games
Byun, JaeHwan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Learner engagement has been considered one of the keys that can lead learners to successful learning in a multimedia learning environment such as digital game-based learning. Regarding this point, game-based learning advocates (e.g., Gee, 2003; Prensky, 2001) have asserted that digital games have great potential to engage learners. Nonetheless,…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Learner Engagement, Role Playing, Control Groups
Rollins, Karen F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The following study examined the difference in science vocabulary acquisition comparing computer-assisted learning and a traditional study review sheet. Fourth and fifth grade students from a suburban school in central Texas were randomly selected and randomly assigned to either experimental group or control group. Both groups were given a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Earl, Jason Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The focal goal of this research was to extend the empirical effort on business simulations as a form of experiential learning by providing the first empirical analysis of business acumen and knowledge application skills. Disruptions in technology are providing more opportunities to improve the simulation gaming learning experience and a number of…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Administrators
Wale, Christine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Digital games are widely popular and interest has increased for their use in education. Digital games are thought to be powerful instructional tools because they promote active learning and feedback, provide meaningful contexts to situate knowledge, create engagement and intrinsic motivation, and have the ability individualize instruction.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Aptitude
Swearingen, Dixie K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This experimental study examined the effect of an educational massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) on achievement on a standards-based mathematics exam. It also examined the interaction of student characteristics (gender and socioeconomic status) with digital game play on mathematics achievement. Two hundred eighty ninth grade students from a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 9, High School Students, Computer Games