Video gameplay, personality and academic performance

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1260-1266

  Ventura, Matthew ^a   Shute, Valerie ^a   Kim, Yoon Jeon ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinary projects; Lifelong learning; Media in education; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; GAMEPLAY; INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT; LIFE LONG LEARNING; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; PLAYING STYLE; TIME SPENT; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; VIDEO GAME;

STUDENTS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84862817352     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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