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Fengfeng Ke; Chih-Pu Dai; Luke West; Yanjun Pan; Jiabei Xu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Students frequently struggled with the mathematizing process -- forging connections between implicit and explicit mathematical thinking -- when solving a context-rich applied problem. The current research investigated how students interact with and leverage purposively designed "mathematizing" supports when solving applied math problems…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Environment, Problem Solving, Mathematics Education
Fengfeng Ke; Chih-Pu Dai; Luke West – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Game-based learning can frame problem-solving as a sense-making experience with domain-specific tasks for school students. However, multiple challenges arise when trying to support learners in such a complex, problem-oriented learning environment. Objectives and Methods: With an architecture-themed mathematics learning game, we…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Experience, Mathematics Education, Game Based Learning
Lorien Cafarella; Lucas Vasconcelos – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Middle school students often enter Computer Science (CS) classes without previous CS or Computational Thinking (CT) instruction. This study evaluated how Code.org's block-based programming curriculum affects middle school students' CT skills and attitudes toward CT and CS. Sixteen students participated in the study. This was a mixed methods action…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
Ji-Eun Lee; Caroline Byrd Hornburg; Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Erin Ottmar – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study investigated the effects of (1) proximal grouping of numbers; (2) problem-solving goals to make 100; and (3) prior knowledge on students' initial solution strategies in an interactive online mathematics game. In this game, students transformed an initial expression into a perceptually different but mathematically equivalent goal state.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Activities, Game Based Learning
Ji-Eun Lee; Caroline Byrd Hornburg; Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Erin Ottmar – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
This study investigated the effects of: (1) proximal grouping of numbers; (2) problem-solving goals to make 100; and (3) prior knowledge on students' initial solution strategies in an interactive online mathematics game. In this game, students transformed an initial expression into a perceptually different but mathematically equivalent goal state.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Activities, Game Based Learning
Stohlmann, Micah S. – School Science and Mathematics, 2023
Escape rooms have been receiving more attention for use in education. Escape rooms are games in which teams solve multiple puzzles and challenges using clues, hints, and strategy to determine how to escape from a locked room. The implementation of escape rooms has the potential for increasing students' mathematical understanding and engagement.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Electronic Learning, Problem Solving, Game Based Learning
Liu, Min; Cai, Ying; Han, Songhee; Shao, Peixia – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
Research on learning analytics (LA) has focused mostly at the university level. LA research in the K-12 setting is needed. This study aimed to understand 4,115 middle school students' learning paths based on their behavioural patterns and the relationship with performance levels when they used a digital learning game as their science curriculum.…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Navigation, Game Based Learning, Middle School Students
Emre Zengin; Yasemin Karal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
This study was carried out to develop a test to assess algorithmic thinking skills. To this end, the twelve steps suggested by Downing (2006) were adopted. Throughout the test development, 24 middle school sixth-grade students and eight experts in different areas took part as needed in the tasks on the project. The test was given to 252 students…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Algorithms, Thinking Skills, Evaluation Methods
Sowell, Marsha – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2020
Since 2007, escape rooms have become increasingly popular in mainstream society. The heightened sense of urgency felt when participating in escape games, united with the possibility of engaging students both in academic and soft-skills has led teachers to add escape games to the list of game-based strategies increasingly used in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Middle School Students
Sercan Özer; Levent Çetinkaya – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2024
This study aimed to gather middle school students' opinions on the utilization of cryptologic methods in education. Using a case study approach, data were collected through a semi-structured interview form developed with expert input. The focus was on the effects of integrating cryptologic methods within the Information Technologies and Software…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Technology Integration, Information Technology
Ji-Eun Lee; Aravind Stalin; Vy Ngo; Katie Drzewiecki; Cindy Trac; Erin Ottmar – Grantee Submission, 2022
New educational technologies that utilize students' interaction data and visualizations provide a means to expand our understanding of learning processes. In this study, we apply two advanced and novel data visualization techniques, called the "Indivisualizer" and a "Sankey diagram," to explore how middle school students (N =…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Problem Solving, Game Based Learning
Ji-Eun Lee; Aravind Stalin; Vy Ngo; Katie Drzewiecki; Cindy Trac; Erin Ottmar – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2022
New educational technologies that utilize students' interaction data and visualizations provide a means to expand our understanding of learning processes. In this study, we apply two advanced and novel data visualization techniques, called the "Indivisualizer" and a "Sankey diagram," to explore how middle school students (N =…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Problem Solving, Game Based Learning
Hsu, Mei-En; Cheng, Meng-Tzu – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Games have been regarded as a potential vehicle for enhancing student learning. Previous studies mainly focused on learning outcomes; however, the learning processes and dynamic in-game behaviours of students who are immersed in a game context are relatively undiscovered. The purposes of this study were to develop an educational game, "Bio…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Educational Games
Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Chloe Byrne; Janette Jerusal; Allison S. Liu; Justin Roberts; Erin Ottmar – Grantee Submission, 2023
Prior research has shown that game-based learning tools, such as DragonBox 12+, support algebraic understanding and that students' in-game progress positively predicts their later performance. Using data from 253 seventh-graders (12-13 years old) who played DragonBox as a part of technology intervention, we examined (a) the relations between…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement
Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Chloe Byrne; Janette Jerusal; Allison S. Liu; Justin Roberts; Erin Ottmar – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Prior research has shown that game-based learning tools, such as DragonBox 12+, support algebraic understanding and that students' in-game progress positively predicts their later performance. Using data from 253 seventh-graders (12-13 years old) who played DragonBox as a part of technology intervention, we examined (a) the relations between…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement
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