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Zuiker, Steven J.; Anderson, Kate T. – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study examines the design and enactment of a secondary physics unit on electromagnetism. The unit used an educational videogame to support peer dialogic engagement in a Singapore secondary school by engaging learners with qualitative physics phenomena. As an example of game-based learning, the unit includes activities and resources that…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Dialogs (Language), Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students
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Yildirim, Zehra; Baran, Medine – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The present study examined the influence of the method of physical activity games and digital games on 9th-grade students' achievements in a physics lesson. In the study, the semi-experimental design was used. The study group was made up of secondary school 9th-grade students from three different groups at a public school. The 1st experimental…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Games, Video Games, Grade 9
Shute, Valerie J.; Rahimi, Seyedahmad – Grantee Submission, 2021
Creativity has been of research interest to psychologists dating back many decades, and is currently recognized as one of the essential skills needed to succeed in our complex, interconnected world. One medium that has affordances to assess and support creativity in young people is video games. In this paper, we briefly discuss the literature on…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Physics, Educational Games
Rahimi, Seyedahmad; Shute, Valerie; Kuba, Renata; Dai, Chih-Pu; Yang, Xiaotong; Smith, Ginny; Alonso Fernández, Cristina – Grantee Submission, 2021
We examined the use and effectiveness of an incentive system--one of the five elements of a theory-based motivational architecture in educational games that we proposed--in a computer-based physics game on students' learning and performance. The incentive system's purpose was to motivate students to access learning supports designed to facilitate…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Incentives, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness
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Zeng, Hui; Zhou, Shao-Na; Hong, Gui-Rong; Li, Qiu-ye; Xu, Shao-Qiu – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
In recent years, game-based learning has attracted much attention in education; however, the effectiveness of game-based learning is still not solidly confirmed. In the present research, a game-based learning in the physics domain with guides provided direct and immediate feedback. The research was conducted among three different groups: the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Game Based Learning, Educational Technology
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Rafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing