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Hui-Chun Chu Shao-Chen Chang 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2014,62(2):147-161
Although educational computer games have been recognized as being a promising approach, previous studies have indicated that, without supportive models, students might only show temporary interest during the game-based learning process, and their learning performance is often not as good as expected. Therefore, in this paper, a two-tier test approach is proposed for developing educational computer games. To evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, a role-playing game was developed and an experiment was conducted on the “migratory bird identification” unit of an elementary school natural science course. Two classes of fifth graders participated in the experiment. One class was the experimental group who learned with the proposed game-based learning approach. The other class was the control group who learned with the conventional e-learning approach. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach not only significantly promoted the students’ learning motivation, but also improved their learning achievements. Moreover, it was found that the students who learned with the educational computer game showed significantly higher technology acceptance degree than those who learned with the conventional e-learning approach. Accordingly, it is concluded that the proposed digital game-based learning approach is effective. 相似文献
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Chung-Yuan Hsu 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(2):104-115
Educational researchers have indicated that although computer games have the potential to promote students’ motivation and engagement, the work on how to design effective games that fulfil educational purposes is still in its infancy. This study aimed to examine how integration of self-explanation into a computer game affected primary schoolers’ acquisition of light and shadow concepts. The participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a control group and played a computer game with or without self-explanation prompts individually as a treatment. Students’ conceptual understanding was evaluated through a pretest and a posttest administered right after the treatment. The results revealed that by controlling the pretest scores, students who played the game with self-explanation features did not outperform those who played the game without any prompts in the posttest. Further analyses of the experimental group students’ responses to the self-explanation prompts also indicated that the students with more correct responses to the prompts did not perform better than those with lower accuracy rates. The deficits in the use of self-explanation prompts are identified, and possible improvements to enhance the function of self-explanation in educational games are proposed. 相似文献
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Hatice Belge Can Yezdan Boz 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2016,14(4):635-657
This study investigates the effect of structuring cooperative learning based on conceptual change approach on grade 9 students’ understanding the concepts of mixtures and their motivation, compared with traditional instruction. Among six classes of a high school, two of them were randomly assigned to cooperative learning group where students were instructed by Cooperative Learning based on Conceptual Change (CLCC), the other two classes were randomly assigned to traditional learning group where students were instructed by Cooperative Learning based on Conceptual Change without well-structuring the basics of cooperative learning (CLCC(?)), and the remaining two classes were randomly assigned to control group where students were instructed by Traditional Instruction (TI). Mixtures Concept Test (MCT), motivation section of Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) except goal orientation sub-scales, and Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) were assigned to the sampled students before treatments are commenced as pretests and after treatments are completed as post-tests. According to post-test scores, there were statistically significant mean differences among the groups exposed to variations of cooperative learning based on conceptual change and traditional instruction with respect to students’ understanding the concepts of mixtures and their motivation. Results drawn upon this study revealed specifically that students exposed to CLCC had better understanding and lower alternative conceptions about the concepts of mixtures, perceived contents related to chemistry more valuable, felt greater control over their own learning, dealt better with sense of worry and emotionality during tests, adapted performance avoidance goals less, and mastery approach goals more than students instructed by CLCC(?) and TI. 相似文献
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Gülüzar Eymur Ömer Geban 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2017,15(5):853-871
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cooperative learning based on conceptual change approach instruction on ninth-grade students’ understanding in chemical bonding concepts compared to traditional instruction. Seventy-two ninth-grade students from two intact chemistry classes taught by the same teacher in a public high school participated in the study. The classes were randomly assigned as the experimental and control group. The control group (N?=?35) was taught by traditional instruction while the experimental group (N?=?37) was taught cooperative learning based on conceptual change approach instruction. Chemical Bonding Concept Test (CBCT) was used as pre- and post-test to define students’ understanding of chemical bonding concepts. After treatment, students’ interviews were conducted to observe more information about their responses. Moreover, students from experimental groups were interviewed to obtain information about students’ perceptions on cooperative work experiences. The results from ANCOVA showed that cooperative learning based on conceptual change approach instruction led to better acquisition of scientific conceptions related to chemical bonding concepts than traditional instruction. Interview results demonstrated that the students in the experimental group had better understanding and fewer misconceptions in chemical bonding concepts than those in the control group. Moreover, interviews about treatment indicated that this treatment helped students’ learning and increased their learning motivation and their social skills. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 5E learning cycle model oriented instruction (LCMI) on 11th-grade students' conceptual understanding of acids and bases concepts and student motivation to learn chemistry. The study, which lasted for 7 weeks, involved two groups: An experimental group (LCMI) and a control group (the traditional teacher-centered instruction [TTCI]). Based on multivariate analysis of covariance results, the LCMI students outperformed the TTCI students in terms of conceptual understanding about acids and bases. Similarly, the students from the experimental group scored higher motivation and this difference was found to be statistically significant. These findings demonstrated that instruction based on learning cycle model provide students a deeper conceptual understanding, foster high-order thinking, engage them in the learning process, and influence their motivation to learn by increasing the relevance of school chemistry to their daily lives. 相似文献
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Gwo-Jen Hwang Chun-Ming Hung Nian-Shing Chen 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2014,62(2):129-145
In this study, a peer assessment-based game development approach is proposed for improving students’ learning achievements, motivations and problem-solving skills. An experiment has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in a science course at an elementary school. A total of 167 sixth graders participated in the experiment, 82 of whom were assigned to the experimental group and learned with the peer assessment-based game development approach, while 85 students were in the control group and learned with the conventional game development approach. From the empirical results, it was found that the proposed approach could effectively promote students’ learning achievement, learning motivation, problem-solving skills, as well as their perceptions of the use of educational computer games. Moreover, it was found from the open-ended questions that most of the students perceived peer assessment-based game development as an effective learning strategy that helped them improve their deep learning status in terms of “in-depth thinking,” “creativity,” and “motivation.” 相似文献
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Diane F. Halpern Keith Millis Arthur C. Graesser Heather Butler Carol Forsyth Zhiqiang Cai 《Thinking Skills and Creativity》2012,7(2):93-100
Operation ARA (Acquiring Research Acumen) is a computerized learning game that teaches critical thinking and scientific reasoning. It is a valuable learning tool that utilizes principles from the science of learning and serious computer games. Students learn the skills of scientific reasoning by engaging in interactive dialogs with avatars. They are tutored by avatars with tutoring sessions that vary depending on how well students have responded to questions about the material they are learning. Students also play a jeopardy-like game against a feisty avatar to identify flaws in research and then generate their own questions to determine the quality of different types of research. The research examples are taken from psychology, biology, and chemistry to help students transfer the thinking skills across domains of knowledge. Early results show encouraging learning gains. 相似文献
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This paper explores the effectiveness of using ‘structured examples in concert with prompting reflective questions’ to address misconceptions held by mechanical engineering students about thermodynamic principles by employing pre-test and post-test design, a structured questionnaire, lecture room observation, and participants’ interviews. Students’ misconceptions were identified through pre-tests that evaluated students’ understanding of the chosen concepts, while conceptual change was assessed in pre-test–post-test design that revealed students’ ability to apply the concepts and transfer skills from a worked example to satisfactorily undertake a fairly complex similar problem. The use of worked examples in concert with prompting reflective questions is effective for inducing correct conceptual change and effective problem-solving skills. However, it is recommended that engineering tutors should incorporate inquiry-based learning approach and computer simulations alongside the use of worked examples with prompting reflective questions in order to enhance students’ conceptual understanding of thermodynamic concepts. 相似文献
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This study investigated the effect of the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach on grade 9 students’ understanding of chemical change and mixture concepts. Four intact classes taught by two chemistry teachers from a Turkish public high school were selected for the study; one class was assigned as the treatment group, and the other class was assigned as the comparison group. Students in the treatment group were instructed by the SWH approach, while those in the comparison group were instructed with traditionally designed chemistry instruction. Tests measuring students’ conceptual understanding in the units of chemical change and mixture were administered as pre- and posttest for both groups. At the end of the instruction, semistructured interviews were conducted with 13 students from the treatment group and eight students from the comparison group. ANCOVA results revealed that the SWH approach was superior to the traditional approach on students’ understanding of chemical change and mixture concepts. Interview results indicated that students in the treatment group demonstrated better scientific understanding of chemical change and mixture concepts compared to those in the comparison group. 相似文献
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部卓红 《河北能源职业技术学院学报》2007,7(4):79-80
教学是教与学的协同活动,在于激发学生的学习动机,唤起学生的求知欲望。在计算机教学中巧妙地运用游戏导入,吸引学生的注意力,使其进入最佳的学习状态,可以收到良好的教学效果。 相似文献
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探究式教育游戏的学习交互设计 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
交互是学习和游戏共有的重要因素,对于促进快乐学习为目的的教育游戏,好的学习交互设计至关重要。文章通过对探究式教育游戏中学习者与游戏界面的操作交互设计,以及与探究式游戏活动、指导者和同伴的信息交互设计的一些探讨,以期提高探究式教育游戏设计时对显性学习交互的支持,进而促进学习者隐性的概念交互,形成知识的建构。 相似文献
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Chung-Yuan Hsu Chin-Chung Tsai Jyh-Chong Liang 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(5):482-493
Educational researchers have suggested that computer games have a profound influence on students’ motivation, knowledge construction,
and learning performance, but little empirical research has targeted preschoolers. Thus, the purpose of the present study
was to investigate the effects of implementing a computer game that integrates the prediction-observation-explanation (POE)
strategy (White and Gunstone in Probing understanding. Routledge, New York, 1992) on facilitating preschoolers’ acquisition of scientific concepts regarding light and shadow. The children’s alternative
conceptions were explored as well. Fifty participants were randomly assigned into either an experimental group that played
a computer game integrating the POE model or a control group that played a non-POE computer game. By assessing the students’
conceptual understanding through interviews, this study revealed that the students in the experimental group significantly
outperformed their counterparts in the concepts regarding “shadow formation in daylight” and “shadow orientation.” However,
children in both groups, after playing the games, still expressed some alternative conceptions such as “Shadows always appear
behind a person” and “Shadows should be on the same side as the sun.” 相似文献
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In traditional teacher-centered mathematics instruction, students might show low learning motivation owing to the lack of applied contexts. Game-based learning has been recognized as a potential approach to addressing this issue; however, without proper alignment between the gaming and math-applied contexts, the benefits of game-based learning could be limited. Therefore, this study aims to develop a microworld-based educational game, which provides simulated contexts encouraging students to explore, discover, and solve practical problems using the mathematics knowledge gained in the class. A quasi-experimental design was implemented in the learning activity of the “Speedy World” unit in an elementary school mathematics course to examine the effectiveness of the proposed approach. A total of 107 sixth graders participated in the experiment. The experimental results showed that the students who learned with the microworld-based gaming approach had better learning achievement and motivation in the mathematics course than those who learned with the conventional technology-enhanced learning approach. In addition, the students also showed that they highly accepted the microworld-based game for learning mathematics. The findings of this study provide good evidence for the importance and necessity of associating authentic applied contexts with gaming contexts in developing computer educational games for mathematics. 相似文献
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José Luis Zafra-Gómez Isabel Román-Martínez María Elena Gómez-Miranda 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2015,40(8):1050-1069
The aim of this study is to determine the impact of inquiry-based learning (IBL) on students’ academic performance and to assess their satisfaction with the process. Linear and logistic regression analyses show that examination grades are positively related to attendance at classes and tutorials; moreover, there is a positive significant relationship between academic performance and IBL, which is considered useful for better understanding of the subject. While students’ satisfaction is directly associated with class attendance and motivation and with the perceived usefulness of IBL, it is unaffected by attendance at tutorials. We conclude, therefore, that students become more involved in learning and acquire increased knowledge of the subject when an IBL-based method is followed. 相似文献
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Mad City Mystery: Developing Scientific Argumentation Skills with a Place-based Augmented Reality Game on Handheld Computers 总被引：3，自引：5，他引：3
While the knowledge economy has reshaped the world, schools lag behind in producing appropriate learning for this social change.
Science education needs to prepare students for a future world in which multiple representations are the norm and adults are
required to “think like scientists.” Location-based augmented reality games offer an opportunity to create a “post-progressive”
pedagogy in which students are not only immersed in authentic scientific inquiry, but also required to perform in adult scientific
discourses. This cross-case comparison as a component of a design-based research study investigates three cases (roughly 28
students total) where an Augmented Reality curriculum, Mad City Mystery, was used to support learning in environmental science.
We investigate whether augmented reality games on handhelds can be used to engage students in scientific thinking (particularly
argumentation), how game structures affect students’ thinking, the impact of role playing on learning, and the role of the
physical environment in shaping learning. We argue that such games hold potential for engaging students in meaningful scientific
argumentation. Through game play, players are required to develop narrative accounts of scientific phenomena, a process that
requires them to develop and argue scientific explanations. We argue that specific game features scaffold this thinking process,
creating supports for student thinking non-existent in most inquiry-based learning environments. 相似文献
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Nada Chatila Afra Iman Osta Wassim Zoubeir 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(1):103-132
This study attempted to investigate the alternative conceptions that a group of 12 Lebanese students in a grade 9 class hold
about electricity. It also attempted to evaluate learning outcomes of implementing in that class an inquiry-based module for
the acquisition of conceptual understanding of basic concepts in electricity. Fourteen mostly subjective tests were administered
throughout the implementation phase of the inquiry-based module to assess the evolution of participants’ conceptions. The
instrument DIRECT (Version 1.0) focusing on conceptual understanding was used as a post-instructional test to measure acquisition
of understanding. The findings revealed that most of the alternative conceptions reported in literature were found amongst
the participants. Results of the post-testing showed that the implemented inquiry-based approach was successful in enhancing
participants’ conceptual understanding of the targeted DC circuit concepts. 相似文献
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Han-Yu Sung 《Interactive Learning Environments》2018,26(1):118-134
Researchers have recognized the potential of educational computer games in improving students’ learning engagement and outcomes; however, facilitating effective learning behaviors during the gaming process remains an important and challenging issue. In this paper, a collaborative knowledge construction strategy was incorporated into an educational computer game to facilitate students’ knowledge sharing and organizing during the game-based learning process. An experiment was conducted to examine the students’ learning behavioral patterns, group efficacy, and problem-solving awareness. The experimental results revealed that the proposed approach improved the students’ learning achievements and awareness of problem-solving. Moreover, from the analysis of the students’ behavior sequences, it was found that, with the collaborative knowledge construction mechanism, the students revealed significantly more aggressive learning behavioral patterns, such as “comparing and observing the learning targets” and “seeking clues and answers” during the gaming process. This implies that integrating the collaborative knowledge construction mechanism into the gaming process has great potential for helping students effectively learn and organize knowledge as well as fostering their awareness of applying the acquired knowledge to dealing with problems. 相似文献
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How does deep conceptual change occur when students play well-designed educational games? To answer this question, we present a case study in the form of a microgenetic analysis of a student’s processes of knowledge construction as he played a conceptually-integrated digital game (SURGE Next) designed to support learning about Newtonian mechanics. Grounded in the Knowledge In Pieces framework of conceptual change (A. diSessa, 1993), we analyze the processes through which the student, Jamal, developed an expert-like understanding of deflections, a phenomenon that has been previously identified as challenging to understand for novice physics learners. We also explore the key characteristics of SURGE Next supporting these conceptual change processes. Our analysis shows that Jamal’s learning involved iterative refinement of his conceptual understanding through distributed encoding (A. diSessa, 1993). That is, as Jamal advanced through the game levels in SURGE Next, he developed a progressively more distributed sense of mechanism (A. diSessa, 1993) and was able to identify and operationalize the roles of the direction and magnitude of an object’s initial (or previous) velocity in determining the velocity resulting from the application of a new impulse. We also discuss the methodological and design implications of our findings for future research on digital games for learning. 相似文献
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Igor Mayer Harald Warmelink Geertje Bekebrede 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2013,38(1):85-106
The authors define the requirements and a conceptual model for comparative evaluation research of simulation games and serious games (SGs) in a learning context. A first operationalisation of the model was used to comparatively evaluate a suite of 14 SGs on varying topics played between 2004 and 2009 in 13 institutes of higher education in the Netherlands. The questions in this research were: what is the perceived learning effectiveness of the games and what factors explain it? How can we comparatively evaluate games for learning? Data were gathered through pre- and post-game questionnaires among 1000 students, leading to 500 useful datasets and 230 complete datasets for analysis (factor analysis, scaling, t-test and correlation analysis) to give an explorative, structural model. The findings are discussed and a number of propositions for further research are formulated. The conclusion of the analysis is that the students’ motivation and attitudes towards game-based learning before the game, their actual enjoyment, their efforts during the game and the quality of the facilitator/teacher are most strongly correlated with their learning satisfaction. The degree to which the experiences during the game were translated back into the underlying theories significantly determines the students’ learning satisfaction. The quality of the virtual game environment did not matter so much. The authors reflect upon the general methodology used and offer suggestions for further research and development. 相似文献
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从高职学生自身特点出发,本着激发学生学习兴趣、启发学生学习动机、提高学生学习效率的思路,提出了适合高职学生课上进行的五大类游戏及巧妙运用。它们分别是角色类游戏、情景类游戏、竞赛类游戏、实验类游戏和综合类游戏。并分别对这五大类游戏进行了深入阐释和案例分析,以期对高职英语教学起到一定的借鉴意义。 相似文献