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ERIC Number: EJ1375354
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 25
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EISSN: EISSN-1929-7750
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Understanding Student Navigation Patterns in Game-Based Learning
Journal of Learning Analytics, v9 n3 p50-74 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. The findings showed significant positive relationships between various tool uses and performance measures and varied tool use patterns at different problem-solving phases by high- and low-performing students. The results indicated that students who used tools appropriately and wisely, given the phase they were at, were more likely to succeed. The findings offered an insightful glimpse of learners' navigation patterns in relation to their performance and provided much-needed empirical evidence to support using analytics for game-based learning in K-12 education. The findings also revealed that log data cannot explain all learners' actions. Implications for both research and practice are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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