Do league tables make you cheat?
Earlier in the year I touched on Pac-man scores and the motivating factors around being the highest. Is it possible for the rewards linked to these scores to be high enough that I’m encouraged to cheat? And, how many of these answers related to GBL also apply to grading in school?
Rewards and over-justification
This is about motivation, but I want to look specifically here at the over justification hypothesis. Lots of work around this, but a nice short read on it here.
Bloom’s guide to game walkthroughs
A couple of posts ago I wrote about game walk-throughs after a conversation with a fellow MSc-er suggested that they thought they constituted cheating. I’m quite a fan of them and it got me thinking about the true value of these documents in a learning context.
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