Examining through visualization what tools learners access as they play a serious game for middle school science

Serious Games Analytics: Methodologies for Performance Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 181-208

  Liu, Min ^a   Kang, Jina ^a   Lee, Jaejin ^a   Winzeler, Elena ^a   Liu, Sa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal orientation; Learner behaviors; Middle school science; Problem based learning; Serious games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944568036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05834-4_8     Document Type: Chapter

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