week 10 technology, gamification and rewards in education

Question 1

what is the google effect

Answer 1

A phenomenon where access to information impacts memory; studied by Sparrow et al. (2011).

Question 2

Describe Sparrow et al.’s (2011) Experiment 3 design.

Answer 2

Participants typed trivia statements and were told if the entry was saved, saved in a folder, or erased. Recognition tests measured memory for the statement’s content and storage condition.

Question 3

Describe Sparrow et al.’s (2011) Experiment 3 results

Answer 3

when ptsp thought information had been erased, greater precision in their memory for the statements than if was saved

So, knowing the information isn’t available later on, affects the way we encode the information. - encode more detail and more depth.

saving information and more esp when it was saved to a folder, ptsp remembered the info better when saved than erased.

So, believing the info is not there anymore, improved memory for learning.

Question 4

What did Giebl et al. (2022) find about “thinking before Googling”?

Answer 4

Thinking before Googling improved recall more than guessing or Googling immediately - idea of desirable difficulty

Question 5

gamification

Answer 5

the application of game features

Question 6

What is Landers’ (2014) theory of gamified learning?

Answer 6

It explains how gamified tasks enhance learning through mediating (direct) and moderating (indirect) processes.

Question 7

give 4 assumptions by landers 2014

Answer 7

1.Learning outcomes of student performance is only going to be as good as the instructional content is. - eg poor teaching
2. Student attitude directly affect learning
3. Game characteristics can affect students behaviour and attitudes - more fun learning = more motivated to learn
4. by changing students attitude - game characteristics can moderate the effect of instructional content on learning outcomes

Question 8

How did Landers and Landers (2014) test gamification effects?

Answer 8

Participants worked on a wiki-based project; the gamified group had a leaderboard, which significantly increased their edits and academic performance.

Question 9

What did Murayama and Kuhbandner (2011) find about extrinsic rewards?

Answer 9

Monetary rewards improved memory only on delayed tests, and only for uninteresting questions.

Question 10

What is the “undermining effect” as shown by Murayama et al. (2010)?

Answer 10

Extrinsic rewards decreased intrinsic motivation to engage in an interesting task, even after rewards were removed

Question 11

How do extrinsic rewards affect memory?

Answer 11

They can improve memory under certain conditions but may undermine intrinsic motivation for enjoyable tasks.

Question 12

If we were to extrapolate Sparrow et al.’s (2011) findings on the effects of saving information on memory, how would we expect taking photographs to influence memory

Answer 12

Impaired memory for objects in the photograph

Question 13

When presented with _____ trivia questions, people are faster to respond to the the colour of _____ words than _____ words.

Answer 13

difficult, computer-unrelated, computer-related

Question 14

Seabrooke, Mitchell et al. (2019) found that pretesting improved people’s _____ the information that they were pretested on, relative to simply studying the information.

Answer 14

motivation to learn

Question 15

Gruber et al.’s (2014) results suggest that

Answer 15

Being curious to learn an answer can improve encoding of both the answer and unrelated information that is encountered in that state of curiosity.

Question 16

Money can ______ memory for _____ materials after a delay, and ______ motivation to complete an interesting task.

Answer 16

improve, uninteresting, reduce