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Pérez Cortés, Luis E.; Gao, Yuchan; Kessner, Taylor M.; Bernier, Jeremy; Gee, Elisabeth R. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
Designing games from the ground up is a popular activity for helping students think in designerly ways. Despite their benefits, such game design activities may place higher-than-anticipated demands on cognitive and institutional resources. In an effort to alleviate these demands, this study explored how playing and fixing partially completed games…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Design, Play, Problem Solving
Matic, Ljerka Jukic; Karavakou, Myrto; Grizioti, Marianthi – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
The literature reports that while digital educational games are used in the elementary classroom, they are rarely, if ever, used in the upper secondary mathematics classroom. In order to investigate this situation, a survey was conducted to determine what upper secondary school mathematics teachers think about digital games and what obstacles and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Games, Learner Engagement
HajiMoradkhani, Hadise; Mashayekh, Shahnaz; Khodabandelou, Rouhollah – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
This study aimed to develop and evaluate a digital instructional game application for learning the basic concepts of the accounting principles in an introductory accounting course. The game was designed using the Unity engine and Griss instructional design model. Based on the model, game characteristics were embedded in educational content. The…
Descriptors: Video Games, Game Based Learning, Introductory Courses, Accounting
Gao, Yuchan; Gee, Elisabeth – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
The game-mediated second and foreign language (GML2) field investigates how games can be used in facilitating L2 teaching and learning. This review explores how researchers define and differentiate among GML2 practices. A total of 51 publications from 2010 to 2021 were analyzed, revealing that only 40% of the publications defined GML2 practices,…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
von Leipzig, Tanja; Lutters, Eric; Hummel, Vera; Schutte, Cornè – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
Dynamic personalization of learning trajectories that integrate different perspectives and variable scenarios is a viable way to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of training and education. Serious games offer a designated platform for this, by aggregating learner interactions, and using these to dynamically configure, adjust and tailor the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Design
Matheus A. Cezarotto; Pamela N. Martinez; Ruth Constansa Torres Castillo; Theodore Stanford; Christopher Engledowl; Germain Degardin; Barbara Chamberlin – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2024
Mathematical learning has an important role and is often prioritized in education. In K-16 education, algebra is one of the most vital mathematical content domains: it represents one of the top barriers for students pursuing a postsecondary education. Game-based learning has been effective in fostering classroom math learning environments that are…
Descriptors: Algebra, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
Ieva Gintere; Emmanouel Rovithis; Ágnes Karolina Bakk; Alvis Misjuns – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2024
The study presents the authors' research for the purpose of designing ImGame, a virtual environment inviting users to playfully learn about the concept of immersion and its historical antecedents. The authors describe ImGame's current pre-production stage and examine the basic characteristics of the feeling of immersion. They intend to deepen the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Creativity, Educational Technology, Interdisciplinary Approach
Felix, Zildomar Carlos; Machado, Liliane S.; Vianna, Rodrigo Pinheiro de Toledo – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
Domestic violence against women has been a serious social and public health problem faced by contemporary society. This type of violence has grown in recent years, placing the woman not only as a victim of the aggressor but also of a sexist culture established over time. One of the ways to combat this problem is through prevention based on…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Victims, Gender Bias
Kaya, Gamze; Sagnak, Hatice Cilsalar – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
Since gamification has strengthened its place in education over the years, it is frequently preferred in English as a Second Language Learning. This study aims to investigate the literature on the effects of gamification on students' English learning as a second language and the tendency of students to use games to learn English as a second…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sendra, Anna; Lozano-Monterrubio, Natàlia; Prades-Tena, Jordi; Gonzalo-Iglesia, Juan Luis – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
This paper introduces the results of applying a gameful approach based on six playful activities as a tool to improve the learning process in higher education. A total of 850 students from different courses of Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) were involved in the study. The strategy was evaluated through a participant observation (active and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Role Playing, Simulation
Gloria Mittmann; Adam Barnard; Sonja Zehetmayer; Simon Wimmer; Vanessa Zehetner; Sylvia Doerfler; Kate Woodcock; Beate Schrank – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2024
Early adolescence is a major time for friendship development, and interpersonal emotion regulation (iER) is a vital skill for social interactions. Serious games are an exciting way to engage young people with psychoeducational content. The authors developed a serious game teaching iER strategies to early adolescents in an interdisciplinary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Educational Games, Computer Games
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
Katemba, Caroline V.; Sinuhaji, Grace V. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
The teaching of vocabulary is essential in the world of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). EFL learners have problems in learning vocabulary. To attract the students' attention, the teachers should have adequate teaching methods. One of the teachers' efforts to engage the students is by applying ESA (engage, study, and activate) through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Das, Anik; Amin, Sumaiya; Kabir, Muhammad Ashad; Hossain, Sabir; Islam, Mohammad Mainul Mainul – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
Mobile games can contribute to learning at greater success. In this paper, the authors have developed and evaluated a novel educational game, named FoodCalorie, to learn food calorie intake standard. The game is aimed to learn calorie values of various traditional foods of Bangladesh and the calorie intake standard that varies with age and gender.…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction, Eating Habits, Health Behavior
Malegiannaki, Irini; Daradoumis, Thanasis; Retalis, Symeon – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
Serious games are used in the field of cultural heritage as a means to transmit cultural knowledge and enable an experiential contact with cultural content. The authors' aim is to investigate whether a game design exploiting the less used combination of complex storytelling, endogenous cooperation, and competition has the potential to sufficiently…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Nonformal Education
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