APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Increasing Students’ STEM Literacy through an Online Multiplayer Simulation
- Scott Brown
University of Connecticut - Kimberly Lawless
University of Illinois at Chicago - Christopher Rhoads
University of Connecticut - Sarah Newton
University of Connecticut - Lisa Lynn
University of Illinois at Chicago - Meng Wang
University of Connecticut - Shiyu Song
University of Connecticut - Jeremy Riel
University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract
A 12-week PBL efficacy-study with middle-grade students, (intervention/comparison), in a multiplayer web-simulation was conducted on the negotiations about global water resources simulations, showed the impact on students’ STEM literacy skills through HLM revealed a significant impact on socio-scientific literacy and science inquiry (n=1313); effect sizes of 0.128 and 0.195 (p<.001).
Human Learning and Memory
