Equal opportunity tactic: Redesigning and applying competition games in classrooms

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 866-876

  Cheng, Hercy N H ^a   Wu, Winston M C ^a   Liao, Calvin C Y ^a   Chan, Tak Wai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Evaluation of CAL systems; Pedagogical issues

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE LEARNING; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; EQUAL OPPORTUNITY; EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES;

COMPETITION; GAME THEORY; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 67650266263     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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