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ERIC Number: EJ1273780
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 15
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Game Learning Analytics for Understanding Reading Skills in Transparent Writing System
Niemelä, Marko; Kärkkäinen, Tommi; Äyrämö, Sami; Ronimus, Miia; Richardson, Ulla; Lyytinen, Heikki
British Journal of Educational Technology, v51 n6 p2376-2390 Nov 2020
Serious games are designed to improve learning instead of providing only entertainment. Serious games analytics can be used for understanding and enhancing the quality of learning with serious games. One challenge in developing the computerized support for learning is that learning of skills varies between players. Appropriate algorithms are needed for analyzing the performance of individual players. This paper presents a novel clustering-based profiling method for analyzing serious games learners. "GraphoLearn," a game for training connections between the speech sounds and letters, serves as the game-based learning environment. The proposed clustering method was designed to group the learners into profiles based on game log data. The obtained profiles were statistically analyzed. For instance, the results revealed one profile consisting of 136 players who had difficulties with connecting most of the target sounds and letters, whereas learners in the other profiles typically had difficulties with specific sound-letter pairs. The results suggest that this profiling method can be useful for identifying children with a risk of reading disability and the proposed approach is a promising new method for analyzing serious game log data.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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