The benefits of computer game programming: A research synthesis

计算机游戏编程的好处：研究综合

• 批准号: 1252276
• 负责人: Jill Denner
• 金额: $ 29.68万
• 依托单位: ETR Associates
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1252276&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: benefits; computer; game; programming; research

In the past decade, many tools and opportunities have been developed for children and young adults to learn through designing and programming computer games. While each project has contributed its analysis of what can be learned from computer game programming, there has, as yet, been no synthesis across those projects laying out what children learn from computer game programming, the best pedagogical strategies for promoting such learning, and which tools and learning environments promote different kinds of outcomes and for whom. This project?s investigators are using a systematic meta-synthesis methodology to pull together existing research on computer game programming to create such a synthesis. Their meta-synthesis method is a seven-step process that integrates quantitative and qualitative research findings. A panel of content and methodology experts is evaluating the rigor and transparency of the findings at each step of the analysis process. In addition to the results that will be reported, this project also is contributing to the growing body of research on rigorous methodologies for conducting qualitative research syntheses.Authoring of computer games is increasingly being used as a strategy to attract youngsters to computing and to enhance STEM learning. A systematic synthesis of what has been learned from scientific studies about effective design and use of computer game programming is needed to make what has been learned accessible and available to those who are designing tools for authoring computer games and experiences for learners and who are investigating the roles computer game authoring can play in promoting learning. This is a broad range of audiences and includes researchers, educators, and program developers.

在过去的十年里，为儿童和年轻人开发了许多工具和机会，让他们通过设计和编程电脑游戏来学习。虽然每个项目都对可以从电脑游戏编程中学到什么作出了分析，但这些项目尚未综合列出儿童从电脑游戏编程中学到什么、促进这种学习的最佳教学战略以及哪些工具和学习环境能促进不同类型的结果和为谁服务。这个项目？S的研究人员正在使用一种系统的综合集成方法，将现有的计算机游戏编程研究整合在一起，创造出这样一个综合。他们的综合集成方法是一个整合了定量和定性研究成果的七步过程。一个由内容和方法专家组成的小组在分析过程的每一步都在评估调查结果的严格性和透明度。除了将报告的结果外，该项目还有助于对进行定性研究综合的严格方法进行越来越多的研究。编写计算机游戏越来越多地被用作吸引年轻人学习计算机和加强STEM学习的一种战略。需要系统地综合从关于有效设计和使用计算机游戏编程的科学研究中学到的东西，以使那些正在为学习者设计创作计算机游戏和体验的工具的人以及正在调查计算机游戏创作在促进学习中所起的作用的人能够获得和使用所学到的东西。这是一个广泛的受众，包括研究人员、教育工作者和程序开发人员。