This article is a guide for researchers interested in assessing the effectiveness of serious computer-based games (or video games, digital games, or electronic games) intended to improve health and health care. It presents a definition of health games, a rationale for their use, an overview of the current state of research, and recommendations for…

Offers two reasons for keeping educational research firmly within the domain of science: to maintain self-correcting progress for educational theory and to maintain the reputation of educational research as a scientific enterprise. Suggests that a possible reconciliation to the two sides on this issue is to use quantitative and qualitative data in…