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Students learn more and better when different educational theories are applied successfully in practice. We believe that competition among students can make the learning process much more enjoyable and motivating if the educational competition experience is conveniently designed, and other educational theories are combined with competition properly. In this paper, we analyze the main design decisions of a computer based competition assessment tool (named ISCARE, Information System for Competition during pRoblem solving in Education) that have educational implications, connecting these decisions with the correspondent educational justification.
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Molina, M.F., Muñoz-Merino, P.J., Muñoz-Organero, M., Kloos, C.D. (2011). Educational Justifications for the Design of the ISCARE Computer Based Competition Assessment Tool. In: Leung, H., Popescu, E., Cao, Y., Lau, R.W.H., Nejdl, W. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2011. ICWL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7048. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25813-8_31
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