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Evaluating the Pedagogical Impact of a Virtual World Using Concept Mapping
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MacKinnon, Gregory; Saklofske, Jon – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
A virtual world was created in an effort to supplement the study of the novel "The Natural Daughter". The educational impact of the virtual world experience on college students of English Literature was assessed using concept mapping as a measure of conceptual change. While conceptual change was evident, the origin of the growth was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Internet, Computer Simulation
First Steps and beyond: Serious Games as Preparation for Future Learning
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Reese, Debbie Denise – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2007
Electronic game technologies can prepare novice learners for future learning of complex concepts. This paper describes the underlying instructional design, learning science, cognitive science, and game theory. A structural, or syntactic mapping (structure mapping), approach to game design can produce a game world relationally isomorphic to a…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Cognitive Psychology, Instructional Design, Cognitive Processes
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 29-July 2, 2016)
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Comparing Computer-Supported Dynamic Modeling and "Paper & Pencil" Concept Mapping Technique in Students' Collaborative Activity
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Komis, Vassilis; Ergazaki, Marida; Zogza, Vassiliki – Computers & Education, 2007
This study aims at highlighting the collaborative activity of two high school students (age 14) in the cases of modeling the complex biological process of plant growth with two different tools: the "paper & pencil" concept mapping technique and the computer-supported educational environment "ModelsCreator". Students' shared activity in both cases…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Concept Mapping, Models, High Schools
Research in Science Education. Volume 12. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian Science Education Research Association (13th, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, May 1982).
Rattray-Wood, Laurie, Ed.; Ferguson, Peter, Ed. – Australian Science Education Research Association: Research in Science Education, 1982
This publication contains a selection of science education research papers, beginning with an overview of trends in science education cognitive developmental research and theory in the United Kingdom. Papers that follow focus on developments in studies of thinking and reasoning, including work on concept mapping and conceptual change. Closely…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation
Improving Student Achievement in Science. Based on the "Handbook of Research on Improving Student Achievement."
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1996
This booklet summarizes the science chapter from the "Handbook of Research on Improving Student Achievement," a report sponsored by the Alliance for Curriculum Reform and also published by the Educational Research Service. The handbook is based on the idea that efforts to improve instruction must focus on the existing knowledge base on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation