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Direct linkRich Paul Cooper; Jonan Phillip Donaldson; Mahjabin Chowdhury; Jonathan M. Mitchell – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
"The Ballad of Proxima-B" is an educational RPG that promotes learning and collaboration. Students contribute to world-building and game mechanics, creating fictional worlds and characters, including a dystopian Earth, the planet Proxima-B, and alien races. The game incorporates constructivist, constructionist, and Dynamic Systems Model…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Role Playing, Science Fiction
Buford, Brandie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to describe the perceptions of African American students pertaining to their engagement in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition course and Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition examination. A purposive sampling design was employed to select 12 participants from one urban…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, African American Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Alvermann, Donna E.; Huddleston, Andrew; Hagood, Margaret C. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
At first glance, any connection between professional wrestling and school-based literacy practices might seem far-fetched, or incongruous at best. This seeming incongruity, however, is what intrigues the authors most. It is also what drives them to wonder if governmental and media sources that regularly proclaim a crisis in literacy achievements…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Literacy, Athletics, Units of Study
