Serious games in tertiary education: A case study concerning the comprehension of basic concepts in computer language implementation courses

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Highlights：

• Evaluators: an educational system for the generation of serious educational games from collections of exercises.

• Learning goal: comprehension of basic concepts in introductory Compiler Construction courses.

• Instructors considered Evaluators as a cost-effective approach to the generation of serious games in tertiary education.

• Students perceived Evaluators games as valuable instruments to comprehend basic Compiler Construction courses.

• Evaluators pedagogical strategy resulted in a significant improvement in the final grades.

摘要

•Evaluators: an educational system for the generation of serious educational games from collections of exercises.•Learning goal: comprehension of basic concepts in introductory Compiler Construction courses.•Instructors considered Evaluators as a cost-effective approach to the generation of serious games in tertiary education.•Students perceived Evaluators games as valuable instruments to comprehend basic Compiler Construction courses.•Evaluators pedagogical strategy resulted in a significant improvement in the final grades.

论文关键词：Serious game,Computer Science education,Authoring tool,Learning analytics,Attribute grammar

论文评审过程：Available online 11 July 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.06.009