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Article Dans Une Revue Computers in Human Behavior Année : 2011

Cognitive consequences of making computer-based learning activities more game-like

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Some students (base group) played the Circuit Game, a 10-level computer-based learning activity intended to help students learn how electrical circuits work. Other students (competition group) played the same game but with competition features added – including a score bar showing performance on each level, the opportunity to earn one ticket per level if a performance criterion is met, and the opportunity to win a prize based on the number of tickets earned. On a retention test given after the game, the competition group remembered significantly more than the base group (d = 0.47). On an embedded transfer test constituting the final level of the game, the groups did not differ significantly. However, on the transfer test there was a significant gender by group interaction in which men performed worse in the competition group than the base group (d = −0.54) and women performed better in the competition group than the base group (d = 0.24). Overall, adding game-like features to a computer-based learning activity caused students to pay attention to game details but did not motivate students – particularly men – to learn more deeply. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563211001038)
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hal-00702984 , version 1 (31-05-2012)

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Krista E. Deleeuw, Richard E. Mayer. Cognitive consequences of making computer-based learning activities more game-like. Computers in Human Behavior, 2011, 27(5), pp.2011–2016. ⟨hal-00702984⟩

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