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Publication Date: 2021
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Moral Reasoning in Peer Conversations during Game-Based Learning: An Exploratory Study
Ilten-Gee, Robyn; Hilliard, Lacey J.
Journal of Moral Education, v50 n2 p140-165 2021
This mixed-methods study is an exploration of fifth and sixth grade students' interactions with an online game called "Quandary," a comic-book-esque game aimed at stimulating ethical decision-making. Building on the domain-based moral education framework, researchers designed and implemented a short-term intervention in three classrooms in which students played an episode of "Quandary" in pairs. Students' pre- and post-test reasoning assessment responses were coded for reasoning levels and coordination types. Conversations between 12 student pairs were recorded during game-play. We coded their speech for transactive discourse. We focus on two pairs of students that engaged in sophisticated transactive discourse; we discuss the potential of their interactions and demonstrate the potential of "Quandary" as a catalyst for moral discussion. Implications for informing innovative approaches to moral education are discussed.
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Thinking Skills, Values Education, Instructional Innovation, Pretests Posttests, Intervention, Grade 6, Computer Games, Cartoons, Ethics, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Peer Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Discussion, Grade 5, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 5
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Language: English
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