How Do They Solve It? Investigating Middle-school Students Problem-solving Approaches in Game-based Puzzles

Mete Akcaoglu; Lucas J Jensen; Daisy Gonzalez

How Do They Solve It? Investigating Middle-school Students Problem-solving Approaches in Game-based Puzzles

Mete Akcaoglu, Lucas J Jensen, Daisy Gonzalez

Leadership, Technology, & Human Development

Georgia Southern University

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In this poster, we present our analysis of middle-school students' problem solving and troubleshooting approaches while solving game-based puzzles (Lightbot). Our results indicate that children tend to use ineffective (i.e., slower) approaches to solve and troubleshoot puzzles. We present our findings, instructional approaches to alleviate the problems, and issues with the game-based assessment in constraining students' performance.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Nov 2 2020
Event	Annual Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) - Duration: Nov 10 2027 → …

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Conference	Annual Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
Period	11/10/27 → …

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Educational Administration and Supervision
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Educational Leadership

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How Do They Solve It? Investigating Middle-school Students Problem-solving Approaches in Game-based Puzzles

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