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Quest to Learn (Q2L) is a public school that opened in 2009 to respond to the needs of kids who are growing up in a highly networked, globally competitive, and complex world. The school was designed to include a game-based pedagogy that provides a dynamic, interdisciplinary curriculum, as well as immersive, challenge-based learning experiences. The present article reports the findings from a 20-month evaluation of Q2L. This research was launched when the school opened, with the main goal to identify and assess a set of key student competencies that are relevant and important to Q2L. This student-level evaluation focused on students’ development of three core skills—systems thinking, time management, and teamwork—over the 20-month time period. We found that students significantly improved their systems thinking skills over the duration of the study, and improved (albeit, not significantly) on their time management and teamwork skills as well. |
