Learning gains for core concepts in a serious game on scientific reasoning

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Forsyth, Carol ^a   Pavlik, Philip ^a   Graesser, Arthur C ^a   Cai, Zhiqiang ^a   Germany, Mae lynn ^a   Millis, Keith ^b   Dolan, Robert P ^c   Butler, Heather ^d   Halpern, Diane ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Pearson Education   (United States)

^d CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Intelligent tutoring systems; Reasoning; Research methods; Serious games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; STUDENTS;

DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE; DISCOURSE; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; REASONING; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC REASONING; STEPWISE REGRESSION;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 85084017880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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