Overview
- First volume combining authors and insights from two disciplines: educational science and political science
- Focuses on detailed features of design such as preparation of students and assessment of students’ performance
- Discusses the effects of simulations on students learning outcomes, motivation and interest
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 22)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Design and Assessment of Simulations
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Effects of Simulations
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About this book
This volume brings together both political and educational scientists. While educational research literature has so far not systematically addressed the tool of simulations of decision-making, political scientists have hardly used insights from research on assessment or on motivation and interest of students. Almost all political science publications on simulations merely discuss how to implement the tool in class and fall short of providing evidence of the effects on student outcomes such as increased interest and performance. Combining the two disciplines is mutually enriching. Political science benefits from state of the art educational science measuring and testing of the claims made by the proponents of simulations, while educational sciences adds the systematic analysis of simulations of decision-making to their list of empirical objects, which also adds insights to the theories on the affective component of student learning. It is the explicit aim of the volume to address how simulating decision-making environments fosters learning. Implications for research and practice regarding student learning are addressed in all chapters.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Simulations of Decision-Making as Active Learning Tools
Book Subtitle: Design and Effects of Political Science Simulations
Editors: Peter Bursens, Vincent Donche, David Gijbels, Pieter Spooren
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74147-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74146-8Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08926-9Published: 11 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74147-5Published: 05 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Political Theory, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Technology