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).

Skills, Knowledge, and Values in interviews -

Wisconsin Science Journal players were interviewed before and after epistemic gameplay. These skills, knowledge, and values gained through the writing and revision of journalistic stories transfers to what game players say in their post-interviews. Players used more journalistic skills, referred to more journalistic terms of art, and invoked more journalistic values in the post-interviews. These results were statistically significant (p < 0.05).