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Selcuk Acar; Denis Dumas; Peter Organisciak; Kelly Berthiaume – Grantee Submission, 2024
Creativity is highly valued in both education and the workforce, but assessing and developing creativity can be difficult without psychometrically robust and affordable tools. The open-ended nature of creativity assessments has made them difficult to score, expensive, often imprecise, and therefore impractical for school- or district-wide use. To…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Artificial Intelligence, Measurement Techniques
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Wan, Kelvin; King, Vivian; Chan, Kevin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2021
Game-Based Learning (GBL) has been recognized as an essential tool for motivating students to engage in active and constructive learning. While there is a link between GBL and learning outcomes, current research evidence tends to undermine the interrelationships of concepts and oversimplify flow experience in the context of GBL. This study adopted…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Game Based Learning, Student Motivation, Correlation
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Mavridis, A.; Tsiatsos, T. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of a 3D educational computer game on students' test anxiety and exam performance when used in evaluative situations as compared to the traditional method of examination. The participants of the study were students in tertiary education who were examined using game-based assessment and traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Test Anxiety, Statistical Analysis
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Thekes, Istvan – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2021
Examining the relationship between technology and the success of language acquisition and the integration of technology into language instruction has been around of a long time by now. The development of technology can essentially change how languages are taught. Nevertheless, it is only in the last few years that the road has opened up for new…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Hynes, Sinead M.; Fish, Jessica; Evans, Jonathan J.; Manly, Tom – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
Executive function is best measured in loosely structured, multi-component tasks that reflect real-life demands. These tasks require participants to develop a strategy, keep a plan in mind and monitor time. Errors include ignoring stated goals ("goal neglect"), over-allocation of time to one task and violating rules. Teasing apart such…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Computer Assisted Testing, Older Adults, Correlation
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Mavridis, Apostolos; Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos; Chatzakis, Michalis; Kitsikoudis, Konstantinos; Lazarou, Efthymios – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2015
This study examined whether a 3D collaborative gave can be used as a midterm examination method and investigated the impact of this game on students' attitude towards collaboration. A total of 89 students and one coordinating professor participated in this study. The intervention lasted five weeks and took place in a computer science department.…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Testing
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Panagiotakopoulos, Chris T.; Sarris, Menelaos E. – International Education Studies, 2013
The present study reports the basic characteristics of a game-like application entitled "Playing with Words-PwW". PwW is a single-user application where a word must be guessed given an anagram of that word. Anagrams are presented from a predefined word list and users can repeatedly try to guess the word, from which the anagram is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Word Lists
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers