Brain points: A growth mindset incentive structure boosts persistence in an educational game

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3339-3348

  O'Rourke, Eleanor ^a   Haimovitz, Kyla ^b   Ballweber, Christy ^a   Dweck, Carol S ^b   Popovíc, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational games; Growth mindset; Incentive structures

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EDUCATIONAL GAME; INCENTIVE STRUCTURE; STRATEGY USE; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT; VIDEO GAME;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84900461323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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