Game-based assessment: investigating the impact on test anxiety and exam performance

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 137-150

  Mavridis, A ^a   Tsiatsos, T ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

exam performance; game based assessment; game based learning; test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007390375     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcal.12170     Document Type: Article

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