Game-based virtual-human role-play training significantly increases faculty military cultural competency, with sustained gains at 3-month follow-up.¶

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q2 i? Participants showed statistically significant increases in the composite military cultural competency score from pretraining to posttraining to 3-month follow-up, F(2, 735) = 274.0, p < .01. → Cate 2015

Evidence¶

Cate 2015¶

Cate, C. A., & Albright, G. (2015). Supporting Student Veterans: Utilizing Game-Based Role-Plays with Virtual Humans to Build Military Cultural Competency and Helping Behaviors in Faculty and Staff. Online Learning, 19(1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1061484

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A repeated-measures ANOVA on the five-item MCC composite (covering preparedness to discuss military service, knowledge of common challenges, managing veteran-sensitive classroom discussions, comfort, and referral preparedness) showed "statistically significant increases in the composite MCC score" across the three time points.

"Reponses to these items were used to form a composite score and a repeated-measures ANOVA showed that there was statistically significant increases in the composite MCC score. Pre, post, and follow-up scores F (2, 735) = 274.0, p < .01."

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