Validity of a simulation game as a method for history teaching

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 462-475

  Corbeil, Pierre ^a   Laveault, Dany ^b  

^a FPC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

behavior; efficiency of games; experiments on games; history; learning style; reasoning; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052392394     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878108325451     Document Type: Article

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