Paper Info
Title
Impact of the feeling of knowledge explicitness in the learners' participation and performance in a collaborative game based learning activity
Abstract
Despite the growing interest in the Game Based Learning (GBL) literature (Squire, 2005; Gee, 2005), only a reduced number of studies have focused on the collaborative modality in GBL (Harteveld & Bekebrede, 2011). Knowledge Group Awareness (KGA) designates the intersubjective perception of teammates' knowledge. The use of especially designed gaming interfaces allows KGA declaration and displaying support by the introduction of the KGA explicitness systems, called by some authors KGA tools (Buder, 2010). This paper aims to study whether a structured explicitness of the KGA could play a core role in facilitating and improving collaborative face to face GBL performances. The KGA is operationalized through the Feeling of Knowledge (FOK) declaration. The FOK refers to the feelings a student has regarding his/her knowledge for a specific subject (Hart, 1965), it is defined by the student using a Confidence Level (CL) based in a 3 level scale. We expect that the FOK declaration process will have a positive impact in the learning process based in the GBL task, both in individual and collaborative phases of the GBL activity proposed to the students. However, we expect better performances in collaborative settings with the explicitness of the KGA thanks to the socially shared metacognition process, developed through the displaying of the intersubjective FOK. For this purpose we designed a collaborative SG in the field of finance, introducing an ad hoc KGA explicitness system with the aim of supporting the students' FOK declaration according to the 3 CL. The first is analyzing the impact of the declaration of the FOK in individual performance when playing alone. The second one is analyzing the influence of shared visualization of the intersubjective FOK in the individual and collaborative performances, according to the symmetry of knowledge between dyad members. This environment permits researchers study different variables in order to study four hypotheses on learner's performances and changes in their Feeling of knowledge (FOK) accuracies during collaborative game experience.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_3
SGDA
Keywords
Field
DocType
fok declaration,collaborative modality,fok declaration process,intersubjective fok,collaborative face,kga declaration,knowledge explicitness,kga explicitness system,collaborative game experience,collaborative sg,authors kga tool,finance,collaborative learning
Declaration,Social psychology,Collaborative learning,Face-to-face,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Metacognition,Operationalization,Dyad,Perception,Feeling
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6944
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mireia Usart1658.45
Margarida Romero27211.80
Esteve Almirall392.51