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Carey, Alexis; Povey, Rachel; Taylor, Jennifer – Preventing School Failure, 2023
Early school leaving (ESL) is considered a significant societal issue globally due to the negative effect on young people's health, affect, and quality of life. Continued absenteeism is a risk factor for ESL. This study aimed to explore Irish children's health and wellbeing experiences during school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hsu, Chung-Yuan; Chiou, Guo-Li; Tsai, Meng-Jung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This study was to investigate the role of students' game self-efficacy in their game performance as well as in their visual behavior distributions and transfer patterns during their gameplay. A total of 48 university students were recruited for participating in a gameplaying task while wearing with an ASL Mobile Eye eye-tracker. After the…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Self Efficacy, Eye Movements, Attention
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Feng, Xuanqi; Yamada, Masanori – Educational Technology & Society, 2021
It is challenging to utilize learning analytic technologies to examine gameplay log data for game-embedded assessment in the field of game-based learning. Analytical approaches based on a new perspective focusing on complicated contextual data are imperative in the current scenario. A relatively new concept called precision education, which…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Behavior Patterns, Informal Education, Game Based Learning
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Rahi, Samar; Abd. Ghani, Mazuri – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2019
Purpose: Understanding the main determinants of internet banking is important for banks and users. Although several prior research projects have focused on the factors that impact on adoption of technology, there is a limited empirical work which simultaneously captures technology-specific factors (PE, EE, WD, GAM) and customer-specific factors…
Descriptors: Banking, Internet, Computer Games, Behavior Patterns
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Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng; Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Hsu, I.-Ying – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
Past studies have suggested that young people lack knowledge regarding food safety, and that food safety education is appropriate for integration into science education since it often involves science knowledge. Thus, this study combined the methods of inquiry-based and game-based learning to develop a computer detective game, called the Poison…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Safety Education, Food
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Šoryte, Dovile; Pakalniškiene, Vilmante – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
Though the significance of involving children in environmental sustainability efforts is widely acknowledged, we still lack evidence on what they think of environmental issues and about the protection of nature. The aim of the paper is to systematically describe the reasons that children give for protecting the environment. Thirty-three children…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Sustainability, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Chu, Hui-Chun; Wang, Chun-Chieh; Wang, Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
EFL (English as a foreign language) students usually learn by rote when they study English grammar. They usually memorize all the grammar rules mechanically instead of learning grammar in a structured way. Researchers have suggested that students can internalize knowledge via using knowledge construction tools and collaborated learning activities.…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Concept Mapping, Cooperative Learning, Game Based Learning
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Forbes, Paul A. G.; Pan, Xueni; de C. Hamilton, Antonia F. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Mimicry involves unconsciously copying the actions of others. Increasing evidence suggests that autistic people can copy the goal of an observed action but show differences in their mimicry. We investigated mimicry in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within a two-dimensional virtual reality environment. Participants played an imitation game with a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Imitation
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Yang, Kai-Hsiang; Chu, Hui-Chun; Chiang, Li-Yu – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Game-based learning (GBL) has been proven to be an attractive learning model by many studies; however, scholars have pointed out that the effectiveness of game-based learning could be limited if proper learning strategies are not incorporated. Prompting is a strategy that plays the important role of providing hints and guidance in interactive…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics
Stanley-Yolgecen, Athena Joyce – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this case study is to explore effects of digital gamification on engagement and achievement in a third-grade social studies course for students of multiple nationalities and with varied native languages attending the English language international branch of a private, affluent school in eastern China. The case study is framed by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Games, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Butler, Yuko Goto; Someya, Yuumi; Fukuhara, Eiji – ELT Journal, 2014
Young learners' use of instructional games in foreign language learning is not yet well understood. Using games that were part of the learning tools for an online assessment, Jido-Eiken, a standardized English proficiency test for young learners in Japan, we examined young learners' game-playing behaviours and the relationship of these behaviours…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)