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International Education Journal Vol 3, No 4, 2002 Educational Research Conference 2002 Special Issue
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Computer Adventure Games as Problem-Solving Environments
David D Curtis School of Education Flinders University david.curtis@flinders.edu.au Michael J Lawson School of Education Flinders University mike.lawson@flinders.edu.au Claims that computer-based adventure games are productive environments for the development of general problem-solving ability were tested in a study of 40 students’ interactions with a novel computer-based adventure game. Two sets of factors that are thought to influence problem-solving performance were identified in the literature