NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute for FY 2012 in Korea

这项行动资助了华盛顿大学的Michael Jong Lee于2012年夏天在韩国首尔的延世大学开展一项名为“游戏元素对新手程序员学习的影响”的研究项目。 主持科学家是金镇宇博士。该研究项目的智力价值在于确定某些游戏元素如何影响编程计算机游戏中的学习结果，创造更好的方法来将测试纳入或伪装在游戏关卡中，以减轻考试的压力，并更好地理解不同的测试方法如何衡量学习对新手程序员的影响。 结果可以允许对编程感兴趣但没有资源参加课程的个人或团体访问计算机编程培训，通过提供对编程的低障碍介绍来增加或保持人们对科学和技术的兴趣，并导致用于评估玩家学习的教育软件的设计，通过展示积极的学习成果消除对网络游戏的负面看法。EAPSI奖学金的更广泛影响包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验;介绍各自所在地的科学，科学政策和科学基础设施;以及社会，文化和语言的方向。 这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在科学家，工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保具有全球意识的美国科学工作者。

This action funds Michael Jong Lee of the University of Washington to conduct a research project, entitled "Effect of game elements on learning for novice programmers," during the summer of 2012 at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. The host scientist is Dr. Jinwoo Kim.The Intellectual Merit of the research project lies in identifying how certain game elements affect learning outcomes in a programming computer game, creating better ways to incorporate or disguise tests within the game levels to reduce the stress of test-taking, and to provide better understanding of how different testing approaches to measure learning affects novice programmers. Outcomes may allow access to computer programming training to individuals or groups that are interested in programming who but do not have the resources to take a course, increase or maintain people's interest in science and technology by providing a low-barrier introduction into programming, and result in designs for educational software to evaluate player learning, and dispel the negative view of online games by demonstrating positive learning outcomes.Broader Impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce.