My-pet-my-quest: Utilizing game quests to scaffold students' goal setting for learning

Zhi Hong Chen; Yu Fu Tseng; Calvin C.Y. Liao; Jen Hang Wang; Tak Wai Chan

My-pet-my-quest: Utilizing game quests to scaffold students' goal setting for learning

Zhi Hong Chen^*
, Yu Fu Tseng
, Calvin C.Y. Liao
, Jen Hang Wang
, Tak Wai Chan

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a My-Pet-My-Quest system to help students establish their learning goals. Digital games often provide students with more controls and clear goals. Therefore, when learning tasks can be integrated with a game structure as a motivating educational environment, students might learn better and with more joyfulness. The My-Pet-My-Quest system that adopts quests to integrate a game structure with a series of learning tasks is proposed to this end. A preliminary experiment was conducted in two elementary classes to assess the quest design. The result reveals that game quest had a positive perception in terms of enjoyment, goal content, goal intensity, and feedbacks. Meanwhile, game quest also stimulated students to attempt more learning tasks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009
Pages	733-737
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 2009 Nov 30 → 2009 Dec 4

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009

Other

Other	17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	2009/11/30 → 2009/12/04

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

Educational games
Game quest
Goal setting
Scaffolding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Education

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My-pet-my-quest: Utilizing game quests to scaffold students' goal setting for learning. / Chen, Zhi Hong; Tseng, Yu Fu; Liao, Calvin C.Y. et al.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009. 2009. p. 733-737 (Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chen, ZH, Tseng, YF, Liao, CCY, Wang, JH & Chan, TW 2009, My-pet-my-quest: Utilizing game quests to scaffold students' goal setting for learning. in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009, pp. 733-737, 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2009/11/30.

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