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Are You Game?

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SIGCSE '19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 866 - 872

https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287411

Published: 22 February 2019 Publication History

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The use of gameful activities in education has been widely celebrated in recent years as an effective pedagogical method in engaging students, exciting cognitive abilities, and promoting mastery. Despite the popularity of game-based learning, to date, little has been done to analyze the impacts of introducing such interventions on students and instructors alike. We focus on hybrid teaching strategies that blend educational games with instructional scaffolding in introductory computer science teaching. We assess the effectiveness of incorporating these teaching strategies by leveraging various empirical evaluation techniques and study their impacts from three different dimensions: students' point of view, instructors' perspective, and students' performance. In addition, we establish correlations between students' approaches to learning and game-based learning, and further discuss how learning concentration and curiosity relate to students' perception of game-based activities.

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Are You Game?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computational thinking
      2. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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SIGCSE '19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

February 2019

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ISBN:9781450358903

DOI:10.1145/3287324

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Cuevas CCortés CGarcía N(2024)Empowering Computer Vision in Higher Education: A Novel Tool for Enhancing Video Coding ComprehensionComputer Applications in Engineering Education10.1002/cae.2280833:1Online publication date: 18-Nov-2024
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