Gaming science: The "Gamification" of scientific thinking

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Morris, Bradley J ^a   Croker, Steve ^b   Zimmerman, Corinne ^b   Gill, Devin ^b   Romig, Connie ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Metacognition; Motivation; Science education; Scientific reasoning; Technology in education; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885355825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00607     Document Type: Review

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