Progressive engagement through the PFO model shifted students' reasoning about the game system from micro-level to macro-level abstraction¶

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q2 i? In the Play stage students mostly approached the game at the micro-level, while in the Open modding stage abstraction incidents and macro-level reasoning increased. → Marianthi Grizioti 2025

Evidence¶

Marianthi Grizioti 2025¶

Marianthi Grizioti. (2025). Computational thinking beyond coding: exploring student computational practices while playing and modifying a socio-scientific simulation game with integrated computational tools. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10477-y

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Analysis of critical incidents coded by thinking-in-levels across the three PFO stages (Graphs 2 and 3). The article reports that in the Play stage "students mostly approached the game system at the micro-level" and that macro-level reasoning increased in open modding.

"In the Open modding stage, the abstraction incidents significantly increased (Graph 3) as well as the macro-level reasoning. In that stage, students approached the simulation game as one system with choices, consequences and rules bound together"

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