The impact of individual, competitive, and collaborative mathematics game play on learning, performance, and motivation

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1050-1066

  Plass, Jan L ^a   O'Keefe, Paul A ^a,b,d   Homer, Bruce D ^b   Case, Jennifer ^b   Hayward, Elizabeth O ^c   Stein, Murphy ^c   Perlin, Ken ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goal orientations; Games; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887560832     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032688     Document Type: Article

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