ERIC Number: EJ1287902
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Apr
Pages: 30
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Connecting the Dots: Understanding the Interrelated Impacts of Type, Quality and Children's Awareness of Design Features and the Mathematics Content Learning Goals in Digital Math Games and Related Learning Outcomes
Bullock, Emma P.; Roxburgh, Allison L.; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Bektas, Elif; Webster, Joseph S.; Bullock, Kathleen A.
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v37 n2 p557-586 Apr 2021
This study focused on an examination of how type, quality and children's awareness of design features in digital math games, along with an awareness of the mathematics goals of the game, were related to learning outcomes. We conducted a parallel conversion mixed methods study with 45 students in Grades 3 and 4 (ages 9-10). Students participated in clinical interviews using three digital math games. The results suggest a moderated mediation relationship in which the quality of the design features moderated the mediating impact of children's awareness of the game's design features, specifically when the child was aware of the mathematics content learning goal (MCLG) of the game. These findings show how important it is that design features are of high quality in a digital math game, and how this is intertwined with children's awareness of the features and the MCLG. When these variables intertwined in just the right way, the interactions between the children and the digital math game afforded mathematical learning growth.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Game Based Learning, Video Games, Outcomes of Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Computer System Design
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 3; Primary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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