Results indicate that games can be as effective as traditional learning modes, revealing their effectiveness in promoting knowledge acquisition (Smetana & Bell, 2012; Backlund & Hendrix, 2013; Clark et al., 2015; Warren et al., 2016), as well as content understanding and concept learning (Connoly et al., 2012; Li & Tsai, 2013; Fu et al., 2016).
Not everyone was excited to promote knowledge.
Empirical studies suggest that engaging in interactive tasks promotes more knowledge acquisition than engaging in constructive tasks, which promote more knowledge acquisition than engaging in active tasks, which promote more knowledge acquisition than engaging in passive learning tasks: I > C > A > P (Chi 2009; Menekse et al. 2013; Chi and Wylie 2014; Chi et al. 2016).
This paper focuses on reporting on the second-cycle research findings and comparing the pedagogic effectiveness of the optimised teacher facilitation practices with the originally designed in the first research cycle, in terms of promoting students' knowledge acquisition.
Research on learning methodologies suggests this model is relatively ineffective, whereas participation in independent research projects promotes enhanced knowledge acquisition and improves retention of students in science.
Additionally, collaboratively building a concept map promoted greater conceptual knowledge acquisition than building one alone (Czerniak and Haney 1998).
We employ Pathfinder network scaling, a recently developed and validated measure of knowledge structure acquisition, to determine whether the combinations of instruction and experience previously found to be effective in promoting declarative and procedural knowledge acquisition result in the development of expert-like knowledge structures.
This method offers the advantages of generating introspection and knowledge acquisition, while promoting critical dialogue [ 43, 44].
Children's Books My Senses is a photo-based book that promotes cognitive development and general knowledge acquisition sciences where children use senses to gain information about their surrounding through observation and manipulation.
It can place learners in control of their own learning and transforms the role of a teacher from the sole-provider of information to a facilitator of knowledge acquisition [ 28, 35] promoting greater learning satisfaction [ 17, 37].
