Modeling the Incubation Effect Among Students Playing an Educational Game for Physics

Autor:	Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, May Marie P. Talandron, Joseph E. Beck
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	education 05 social sciences Pedagogy Mathematics education 050301 education 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Logistic regression Psychology 0503 education Outcome (game theory) Incubation Educational game
Zdroj:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783319614243 AIED
Popis:	We attempted to model the Incubation Effect, a phenomenon in which a momentary break helps the generation of a solution to a problem, among students playing Physics Playground. We performed a logistic regression analysis to predict the outcome of the incubation using a genetic algorithm for feature selection. Out of 14 candidate features, those that significantly predicted the outcome were total badges earned prior to post-incubation, the problem’s level of difficulty, total attempts made prior to post-incubation, and time interval of post-incubation. We found evidence that incubation in the earlier part of the game is more beneficial than breaks at the later part where students may already be mentally exhausted.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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