Use GBA data to identify perfunctory game moments and redesign them as reflective practices embedded in game-flow¶

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Description¶

The article shows GBA data feeding back into game redesign: the semantic template served "as a tool to clarify how players should interact with the game cycles." In one cycle, a perfunctory click-through report screen was redesigned as an occasion for reflection-on-practice, with in-game consequences (making key resources available based on report recommendations) so that reflective practices were embedded in the game-flow rather than appended to it.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Requires a semantic template identifying key moments and telemetry data revealing how players interact with those moments

Constraints¶

• The article presents this as a design insight from one cycle in Progenitor X, not a tested redesign

Target Learners¶

• middle and high school students playing learning games

Target Learning Goals¶

• reflection-on-practice summarizing in-game experience
• content-model learning embedded in game play

Related Strategies¶

• Design GBA according to educational needs and game features, integrating ECD by identifying competences, deciding on evidence, and designing in-game tasks
• Guide Student Reflection

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Richard Halverson, Elizabeth Owen, Nathan Wills, R. Benjamin Shapiro. (2012). Game-Based Assessment: An integrated model for capturing evidence of learning in play. ERIA Working Paper. http://www.eriainteractive.com/index.php