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    This study will examine the effects of game-based assessments versus traditional paper assessments on 8th grade advanced English students. The students will be divided into two groups, with one group taking a paper assessment and the other using iPads to complete a game-based assessment in Kahoot. Each group will receive four short assessments that alternate between paper and game-based formats. The student groups will be reshuffled between the third and fourth assessments. Results from both assessment types will be compared to see if the format impacts student performance. Data collection will involve hand-scoring paper assessments and downloading results from Kahoot, which automatically aggregates scores into an Excel file. Both assessments will use identical questions to control for question variability.

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    This study will examine the effects of game-based assessments versus traditional paper assessments on 8th grade advanced English students. The students will be divided into two groups, with one group taking a paper assessment and the other using iPads to complete a game-based assessment in Kahoot. Each group will receive four short assessments that alternate between paper and game-based formats. The student groups will be reshuffled between the third and fourth assessments. Results from both assessment types will be compared to see if the format impacts student performance. Data collection will involve hand-scoring paper assessments and downloading results from Kahoot, which automatically aggregates scores into an Excel file. Both assessments will use identical questions to control for question variability.

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    This study will examine the effects of game-based assessments versus traditional paper assessments on 8th grade advanced English students. The students will be divided into two groups, with one group taking a paper assessment and the other using iPads to complete a game-based assessment in Kahoot. Each group will receive four short assessments that alternate between paper and game-based formats. The student groups will be reshuffled between the third and fourth assessments. Results from both assessment types will be compared to see if the format impacts student performance. Data collection will involve hand-scoring paper assessments and downloading results from Kahoot, which automatically aggregates scores into an Excel file. Both assessments will use identical questions to control for question variability.

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    N.

    Williams
    Methodology
    EDRS 8000

    Methodology Design
    Setting and Participants
    This study will be conducted with the students within my 8th grade Advanced
    Content/Gifted English Language Arts classroom. Though these students present a small
    portion of my suburban Atlanta, Georgia middle school, they will serve as a valid basis to begin
    such a study. Should any differences be observed in the manner in which they perform
    depending upon the type of assessment they take. Furthermore, as this group of students tend
    to test well, as is evidenced by their placement within an Advanced Content class as a result of
    the Georgia Department of Educations Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), further
    studies with students who are not already meeting or surpassing grade-level standards may
    affect the results of this study further.

    Design
    The students will participate in a total of four short assessments on four differing topics
    where they are able to participate in either a paper-based version of the assessment or the
    game-based assessment. The students will be divided into two distinct groups: one group that
    takes the paper assessment and the other group that will participate in the game-based
    assessment. The students within each group will be of an equal amount of males and females

    and much care will be given to ensure that the average CRCT scores of these students within
    English Language Arts and Reading within each group will be roughly the same (within 5
    points). These groups will alternate taking either the paper or the game-based assessment to
    see if the students are indeed doing better or worse within the type of assessment presented.
    Beyond this, the students will be shuffled up into two more different groups for the third and
    fourth assessments so that the groups they are in do not influence the results of which
    assessment is more effective.

    Data Collection
    As mentioned in the research design section, the students will take part in four short
    assessments and be separated into two groups which will change between the second and third
    assessments. The shuffling of these student groupings is intended to eliminate any unforeseen
    variables beyond the type of assessments being delivered in and of themselves. For the paperbased assessments, the students responses will be hand-scored. For the game-based
    assessments, the students will be provided with school-owned iPads or iPad minis in order to
    participate in an assessment delivered via Kahoot. This online assessment tool will provide
    instant results and standings based upon which students respond correctly the quickest. The
    results are automatically aggregated into an Excel spreadsheet-compatible .CSV file which will
    be downloaded at the end of the admission of the assessment. These results will then be
    compared to that of the students in the paper assessment group to see if the assessment
    method has an affect on the students success or failure on that assessment. Furthermore, both

    assessment types will feature the same exact questions with the same answer options and
    wording so that that does not stand as a possible variable that could affect the final results.

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