Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games

Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games
Author: Connolly, Thomas M.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2013-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466647744

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"This book addresses issues the potential of games to support learning and change behaviour offering empirical evidence pertaining to the effectiveness of Serious Games in the key areas of psychology, pedagogy, and assessment"--

Serious Educational Game Assessment: Practical Methods and Models for Educational Games, Simulations and Virtual Worlds

Serious Educational Game Assessment: Practical Methods and Models for Educational Games, Simulations and Virtual Worlds
Author: L.A. Annetta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460913296

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In an increasingly scientific and technological world the need for a knowledgeable citizenry, individuals who understand the fundamentals of technological ideas and think critically about these issues, has never been greater. There is growing appreciation across the broader education community that educational three dimensional virtual learning environments are part of the daily lives of citizens, not only regularly occurring in schools and in after-school programs, but also in informal settings like museums, science centers, zoos and aquariums, at home with family, in the workplace, during leisure time when children and adults participate in community-based activities. This blurring of the boundaries of where, when, why, how and with whom people learn, along with better understandings of learning as a personally constructed, life-long process of making meaning and shaping identity, has initiated a growing awareness in the field that the questions and frameworks guiding assessing these environments should be reconsidered in light of these new realities. The audience for this book will be researchers working in the Serious Games arena along with distance education instructors and administrators and students on the cutting edge of assessment in computer generated environments.

Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment

Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment
Author: Harold F. O'Neil
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1317814665

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Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment: Key Issues comprises a multidisciplinary investigation into the issues that arise when using games and simulations for educational purposes. Using both theoretical and empirical analyses, this collection examines cognitive, motivational, and psychometric issues with a focus on STEM content. Unlike other research-based volumes that focus solely on game design or the theoretical basis behind gaming, this book unites previously disparate communities of researchers—from civilian to military contexts as well as multiple disciplines—to critically explore current problems and illustrate how instructionally effective games and simulations should be planned and evaluated. While computer-based simulations and games have the potential to improve the quality of education and training, Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment: Key Issues shows how the science of learning should underlie the use of such technologies. Through a wide-ranging yet detailed examination, chapter authors provide suggestions for designing and developing games, simulations, and intelligent tutoring systems that are scientifically-based, outcomes-driven, and cost-conscious.

Serious Games

Serious Games
Author: Ute Ritterfeld
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135848912

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The central purpose of this book is to examine critically the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the "real world."

Serious Games in Personalized Learning

Serious Games in Personalized Learning
Author: Scott M. Martin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000400107

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Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing, and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisition of information and knowledge that a student may gain through playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary research, frameworks, and models centered on the design and delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning experience. Scholars of educational technology, instructional design, human performance, and more will find a comprehensive guide to the history, practical implications, and data-collection potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools.

Serious Games

Serious Games
Author: Clark C. Abt
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1987
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780819161482

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The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct and inform as well as provide pleasure. He uses innovative approaches to problem solving through individualized game techniques.

Serious Games Analytics

Serious Games Analytics
Author: Christian Sebastian Loh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2015-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319058347

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This volume brings together research on how gameplay data in serious games may be turned into valuable analytics or actionable intelligence for performance measurement, assessment, and improvement. Chapter authors use empirical research methodologies, including existing, experimental, and emerging conceptual frameworks, from various fields, such as: computer science software engineering educational data mining statistics information visualization. Serious games is an emerging field where the games are created using sound learning theories and instructional design principles to maximize learning and training success. But how would stakeholders know what play-learners have done in the game environment, and if the actions performance brings about learning? Could they be playing the game for fun, really learning with evidence of performance improvement, or simply gaming the system, i.e., finding loopholes to fake that they are making progress? This volume endeavors to answer these questions.

Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning

Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning
Author: Cannon-Bowers, Jan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2010-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1615207406

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"With an increasing use of vido games in various disciplines within the scientific community, this book seeks to understand the nature of effective games and to provide guidance for how best to harness the power of gaming technology to successfully accomplish a more serious goal"--Provided by publisher.

Game-Based Assessment Revisited

Game-Based Assessment Revisited
Author: Dirk Ifenthaler
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030155692

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The capabilities and possibilities of emerging game-based learning technologies bring about a new perspective of learning and instruction. This, in turn, necessitates alternative ways to assess the kinds of learning that are taking place in the game-based environments. The field has been broadening the focus of assessment in game environments (i.e., what we measure), developing processes and methodologies that go beyond psychometrics practices (i.e., how we go about assessment in games), and implementing the game-based assessment (GBA) in real contexts. The current state of the field calls for a revisit of this topic to understand what we have learned from the research on this topic, and how the GBA work changed how the field thinks about assessment beyond game environments. Accordingly, this comprehensive volume covers the current state of research, methodology, and technology of game-based assessment. It features four major themes: what we are measuring in games, how GBA has influenced how people do assessment beyond games, new methods and practices, and implementations of GBA. The audience for this volume includes researchers, graduate students, teachers, and professional practitioners in the areas of education, instructional design, educational psychology, academic and organizational development, and instructional technology.

Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications

Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications
Author: Zheng, Robert
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522505148

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Games have been part of the entertainment industry for decades. Once only considered viable for personal entertainment, virtual gaming media is now being explored as a useful tool for learning and student engagement. The Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications presents a comprehensive examination of the implementation of gaming in classroom settings and the cognitive benefits this integration presents. Highlighting theoretical, psychological, instructional design, and teaching perspectives, this book is a pivotal reference source for researchers, educators, professionals, and academics interested in the innovative opportunities of game-based learning.