2019/10/27 by Seyede Fatemeh Noorani, Noorani, Seyede Fatemeh, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei +5
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence in Games #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Education and Critical Thinking Development #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Game Theory and Applications #Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.12235
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Obtaining knowledge and skill achievement through peer learning can lead to\nhigher academic achievement. However, peer learning implementation is not just\nabout putting students together and hoping for the best. At its worst-designed,\npeer learning may result in one person doing all the effort for instance, or\nmay fail to encourage the students to interact enough with the task and so\nenhance the task in hand. This study proposes a mechanism as well as an\ninstructional design to foster well-organized peer learning based on game\ntheory (PD\_PL). The proposed mechanism uses prisoner's dilemma and maps the\nstrategy and payoff concepts found in prisoner's dilemma onto a peer learning\natmosphere. PD\_PL was implemented during several sessions of four university\ncourses and with 142 computer engineering students. %The results of the\npre-test and post-test exams of all the sessions were compared with R software\nthrough Paired Hotelling's T-Square analysis in order to investigate the\nimpacts of PD\_PL and the proposed instructional design on students' personal\nlearning. The study results indicated that PD\_PL was beneficial and favourable\nto the students.\n Further analysis showed that the PD\_PL had sometimes even enhanced\nlearning by up to 47.2 %.\n %The results of a subjective evaluation showed that the majority of\nrespondents found PD\_PL to be an attractive and efficient tool for learning\nenhancement. %Everybody who is interested in designing peer learning programs\nand tools will find this study interesting.\n