Hi,
How can I measure the effectiveness of teacher provided scaffolding instruction in classroom by using educational games to enhance math learning quantitatively or via mixed methods? What are the recommended theoretical frameworks that should I consider? Any recommendations?
Heyy,
Thanks for your quick replies and sources. My intention to teach in a traditional math classroom using tablet or computer games Todd.
What age are the kids and that is key in the method you use and how you could scaffold them, it also depends on the platform(game) you would be using, does it have scaffolding in-built into the teaching. If it does there should be a teacher dashboard where you could see where the students are struggling as it an individual level you would have to asses your effectiveness, if your using generic games on an ipad with no formal scaffolding in the game, its the totally different method but it would depend on the age and the kind of game, many math games are barely teaching anything other than drilling students with a point carrot system.
Hey Frank,
I am planning to use different types of math apps for the kids between 10-11 years old. The games that I am thinking to use very dynamic and qualified games, it is not drill and practice type of games. There are built-in game scaffolding in the games, but not dashes, as I figured out, but I would like to find proper different type of scaffolding frameworks that I can apply these games to enhance math learning of the kids while maintaining their engagement. Do you think is it a good idea to borrow established scaffolding frameworks from the literature and apply them in game-based learning environments? If so, only pre-post test design is enough to assess the scaffolding effectiveness? Or do you think it is better to explore to find a proper scaffolding during the game-play? Sorry I have so many questions that I am trying to address them through this platform. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Frank Ferrao
Sorry for the late reply, Gulsah, I was gone for the holidays mentally and could not engage in your question, like you said this is a larger conversation which cannot be resolved over a few post. Scaffolding in educational games breaks away from game play and becomes a very dry experience, I looked into your research and I see you have extensively tried to quantify this experience and its effectiveness, I guess this is the trend of digital education, finding that magic formula of what the industry calls predictive learning, where the students provide the data. I'm in favour of the pre-post test model that your proposed because that measures the experience and does not put in stop-gap solutions to move the user forward and get a check mark in the backend saying its all good!
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