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Marcus Wolfe – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study examines how playing levels of a fraction-themed videogame impacts students' thinking. The research question answered is: What do students' gestures reveal about the degree to which their thinking is embodied as they play a videogame that is constructed via a grounded metaphor for mathematical knowledge. Four soon-to-be…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Universities, Mathematics Education
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Yi-Shiuan Chou; Huei-Tse Hou; Kuo-En Chang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The trend in history education is gradually emphasizing the development of historical thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills, which are expected to enhance the breadth and depth of learners' thinking. The integration of game-based learning with collaborative problem-solving activities designed for historical thinking is expected to help…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Gwo-Jen Hwang; An-Chi Lin; Shao-Chen Chang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Digital games have been used in various disciplines to enhance students' learning interest and effectiveness through the gaming contexts. However, most of the digital educational games use multiple-choice questions to confirm students' learning status, implying the challenge of understanding the actual learning status of students. Also, the gaming…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Horticulture
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Chou, Yi-Shiuan; Hou, Huei-Tse; Chang, Kuo-En; Su, Chien-Lun – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study proposed a cognitive-based game mechanism based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive processing dimensions. Moreover, a mobile Chinese history educational game, Void Broken: The Qing Dynasty, was developed based on the cognitive-based game mechanism to promote learners' cognitive thinking in history learning. This empirical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Thinking Skills
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Annetta, Leonard; Lamb, Richard; Bressler, Denise M.; Vallett, David B. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2020
The purpose of this study was to identify the underlying cognitive attributes used during the design and development of science-based serious educational games. Study methods rely on a modification of cognitive diagnostics, item response theory, and Bayesian estimation with traditional statistical techniques such as factor analysis and model fit…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Cognitive Processes, Artificial Intelligence, 21st Century Skills
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Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Hsu, I.-Ying – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
This research aimed to develop a computer detective game for science education to provide students in experiencing real-world problem-solving after learning electricity-related knowledge, and to explore the effects of designing the guidance of process constraints and prompts into this game. To explore the effects of guidance, two different game…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Guidance, Problem Solving
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2020
For the forty-third time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains 37 papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Professional Development, Feminism
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education