Results: Skills, knowledge, and values

Skills, Knowledge, and Values in stories -

Journalism.net players’ stories all show a similar pattern: completing story revisions that are guided by peer and editor copyedits help gameplayers to develop journalistic skills, knowledge, and values. Players’ first story drafts, revised drafts (revisions that players completed alone), and final published drafts (revisions that players completed with the aid of written editor copyedits) were scored on a rubric that was developed from the training practices of journalism. These results were statistically significant (p < 0.05).
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