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Yi-Fan Wang; Mei-Hua Hsu; Max Yue-Feng Wang – Health Education Journal, 2025
Objective: The medical terminology escape room game (MTEG) is a chatbot designed for gamified education that aims to transform memorizing complex medical terminology into an enjoyable experience for medical students. By combining elements of ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence and Satisfaction) theory with escape room adventures, the MTEG aims…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Medical Education, Game Based Learning, Nursing Students
Hsiu-Ling Chen; Abebayehu Yohannes; Ning-Li Hung – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
The escape room game is an example of digital game-based learning that has become a popular learning tool in recent years. However, not enough is known about enthusiasm for and promising reports of the use of escape rooms in education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of escape room game-based civics education on eighth…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Video Games
Romero Rodríguez, Laura – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Society is continually evolving and the needs of current generations of students are changing, deriving from the ongoing digital evolution of the whole of society. Gamification tools are increasingly being implemented in education, since previous studies have demonstrated their usefulness to foster motivation, particularly in the case of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Games, Gamification, Game Based Learning
Dk Nurul Najiah Pg Abu Bakar; Masitah Shahrill; Yusuf F. Zakariya – SAGE Open, 2023
Educational stakeholders in Brunei are not exempted from the search for innovative instructional approaches as a tool to stem the tide of poor performance of students in mathematics. This study was designed to contribute to this national project by examining the impact of a digital escape game intervention on students' mathematics performance and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Outcomes of Education, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries
Eva Fidia Lestari; Masagus Firdaus; Hanni Yukamana – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
The pandemic has affected many aspects of our lives including education and that has caused the Government to provide alternative teaching methods and make recommendations for online learning. Since smartphones and laptops using the internet are the only tools for learning, students are increasingly playing online games and being exposed to…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Computer Games, Video Games, Game Based Learning
Mohammad Najib Mohammed Naaim; Mageswary Karpudewan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted students' motivation for learning. As students return to schools in the post-pandemic era, their motivation for learning continues to deteriorate due to challenges in adapting to the new educational norms. This study aimed to enhance the motivation of secondary school students towards learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Game Based Learning, Chemistry
Reyssier, Stephanie; Hallifax, Stuart; Serna, Audrey; Marty, Jean-Charles; Simonian, Stephane; Lavoue, Elise – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2022
Several studies have been conducted in recent years into the effects of gamification on learner motivation. However, little is known about how learner profiles affect the impact of specific game elements. This article analyzes the effect of a gamified mathematic learning environment on the motivation and the motivated behaviors of 258 learners in…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learning Motivation, Profiles, Mathematics Education
Xiaoli Huang; Wei Xu; Ruijia Liu – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2025
This article presents a meta-analysis of the existing literature using Stata 18.0, focusing on the effects of ITSs on learning attitudes, knowledge acquisition, learner motivation, performance, problem-solving skills, test scores, and educational outcomes across different countries and educational levels (k = 30, g = 0.86). The findings suggest…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Outcomes of Education, Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes
Bojan Lazarevic; Maja Stojanovic; Jelena Pisarov; Nemanja Bojanic – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
This study examined the impact on the motivation of students toward learning physics upon applying the Nikola Tesla Center (NTC) learning system. The research was conducted using a quasi-experiment with a pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design. The participants considered were a large group of 1371 students, from various grades and…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Science Education, Physics, Science Instruction
Yang, Kai-Hsiang; Chen, Hsiao-Hua – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Many studies have confirmed that digital game-based learning can effectively improve students' learning motivation and that properly integrating learning strategies into digital games can effectively improve students' learning achievement. However, rare research has been considered the long-term effect of learning retention. In the current study,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Electronic Learning, Game Based Learning
Ekin, Cansu Cigdem; Gul, Abdulmenaf – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
This research aims to conduct a bibliometric study to describe how game-based educational research is structured and how it has evolved over time. For this purpose, bibliometric analysis has been used to analyze 4980 publications indexed by the Elsevier SCOPUS database between 1967 and May 2021. The related publications were evaluated by analyzing…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Game Based Learning, Educational Research, Publications
Ching-Yi Chang; Intan Setiani; Jie Chi Yang – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Traditional teaching methods often limit interactive learning, negatively impacting students' motivation and learning achievement. Moreover, fostering collaborative awareness and problem-solving skills is crucial for developing the core competencies of future nursing professionals. To address these challenges, this study proposed an escape…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Puzzles, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Learning
Zhonggen Yu – SAGE Open, 2023
The past several years have been witnessing the fast development of information and communication technology, with which an increasing number of serious games are being designed and developed. Randomly selected participants were divided into the treatment and control cohorts. Two experiments, as well as a semi-structured interview, were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Game Based Learning
Shakhmalova, Irina; Zotova, Natalia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Educational digital games can be an effective way to teach English grammatical material because they provide an interactive and engaging learning experience. The purpose of this study is to clarify how playing digital games affects students' motivation and performance in university-level English grammar classes. [The North-Eastern Federal…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Evaluation, Educational Games, Computer Games
Iqbal A. Rizki; Nadi Suprapto; Hanandita V. Saphira; Yusril Alfarizy; Riski Ramadani; Aulia Dwi Saputri; Dewi Suryani – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
Low levels of critical thinking skills and learning motivation, particularly in physics learning, pose significant challenges that must be promptly addressed to ensure students' future success. To tackle this issue, the present study endeavors to develop a Cooperative Model, Digital Game, and Augmented Reality (CAP)-based learning, which is both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Physics, Game Based Learning