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• Bochennek, K., Wittekindt, B. Zimmermann, SY., & Klingebiel, T. (2007). More than mere games: A review of card and board games for medical education. Medical Teacher, 29. 10.1080/01421590701749813
• Harris, C. (2009). Meet the new school board: Board games are back—and they’re exactly what your curriculum needs. School Library Journal.
• Sardonw, N. B., Devlin-Scherer, R. (2016). Let the (Board) games begin: Creative ways to enhance teaching and learning. The Clearing House, 89(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00098655/2016.1214473
• Smith, E., & Golding, L. (2018). Use of board games in higher education literature review. MSOR Connections, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v16i2.624
• Noda, S., Shirotsuki, K., & Nakao, M. (2019). The effectiveness of intervention with board games: A systematic review. BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 13(22). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-019-0164-1
• Threher, E. N. (2011). Learning with board games: Tools for learning and retention. The Learning Key, inc.
• Wake, P., & Illinworth, S. (2018). Games in the curriculum. Learning and Teaching in Action, 13(1).
• Barzegar, K., Barzegar, S., & Asian J. (2017) Chess therapy: A new approach to curing panic attack. Psychiatr.
• Rosholm, M., Mikkelsen, M. B., & Gumede, K. (2016) Your move: The effect of chess on mathematics test scores. PLoS One.
• Miltiades, H. B., & Thatcher, W. G. (2016) Individuals with Alzheimer’s learn to play a tile placement game: Results of a pilot study. Dementia.
• Karbownik, M. S., Wiktorowska-Owczarek, A., Kowalczyk, E., Kwarta, P., Mokros, L., & Pietras, T. (2016) Board game versus lecture-based seminar in the teaching of pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs–a randomized controlled trial. FEMS Microbiol.
• Berland, M. (2011). Understanding strategic boardgames as computational-thinking training machines. International Journal of Games-Based Learning, 1(2).10.4018/ijgbl.2011040105
• Crocco, F., Offenholley, K., & Hernandez, C. (2016). A proof-of-concept study of game-based learning in higher education. Simulation & Gaming, 1046878116632484. doi:10.1177/1046878116632484
• Duncan, S. C., & Berland, M. (2012). Uncovering play through collaboration and computation in tabletop gaming. Presented at the Meaningful Play 2012, East Lansing, MI.
• Elofsson, J., Gustafson, S., Samuelsson, J., & Träff, U. (2016). Playing number board games supports 5-year-old children’s early mathematical development. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 43, 134–147. doi:10.1016/j.jmathb.2016.07.003
• Horn, M. S., Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., & Olson, I. D. (2012). Spinners, dice, and pawns: Using board games to prepare for agent-based modeling activities. Presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC.
• Jiménez, O., Acholonu, U., & Arena, D. (2014). Tug-of-War: Seeking help while playing an education card game. In F. C. Blumberg (Ed.), Learning by playing: Video gaming in education (pp. 232–245). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Jiménez, O., Arena, D., & Acholonu, U. (2011). Tug-of-War: A card game for pulling students to fractions fluency. In C. Steinkuehler, C. Martin, & A. Ochsner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Games + Learning + Society Conference (pp. 119–127). Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press.
• Kaufman, G. F., & Flanagan, M. (2013). Lost in translation: Comparing the impact of an analog and digital version of a public health game on players’ perceptions, attitudes, and cognitions. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 5, 1–9. doi:10.4018/jgcms.2013070101
• Lieberoth, A. (2015). Shallow gamification: Testing psychological effects of framing an activity as a game. Games and Culture, 10, 229–248. doi:10.1177/1555412014559978
• Peppler, K., Danish, J. A., & Phelps, D. (2013). Collaborative gaming teaching children about complex systems and collective behavior. Simulation & Gaming, 44, 683–705. doi:10.1177/1046878113501462
• Ramani, G. B., & Siegler, R. S. (2008). Promoting broad and stable improvements in low-income children’s numerical knowledge through playing number board games. Child Development, 79, 375–394. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01131.x
• Ramani, G. B., & Siegler, R. S. (2011). Reducing the gap in numerical knowledge between low- and middle-income preschoolers. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 32, 146–159. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2011.02.005
• Ramani, G. B., Siegler, R. S., & Hitti, A. (2012). Taking it to the classroom: Number board games as a small group learning activity. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104, 661–672. doi:10.1037/a0028995
• Siegler, R. S., & Ramani, G. B. (2008). Playing linear numerical board games promotes low-income children’s numerical development. Developmental Science, 11, 655–661. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00714.x
• Siegler, R. S., & Ramani, G. B. (2009). Playing linear number board games—but not circular ones—improves low-income preschoolers’ numerical understanding. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101, 545–560. doi:10.1037/a0014239
• Whyte, J. C., & Bull, R. (2008). Number games, magnitude representation, and basic number skills in preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 44, 588–596. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.44.2.588
• Austin, C. (2017, July 28). Board games offer unique teaching methods for military medical students. Retrieved July 28, 2017, from https://usupulse.blogspot.com/2017/07/board-games-offer-uniq…
• Bayeck, R. Y. (2018). A review of five African board games: is there any educational potential? Cambridge Journal of Education, 48(5), 533–552.
• Chou, M.-J. (2017). Board games play matters: A rethinking on children’s aesthetic experience and interpersonal understanding. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(6), 2405–2421. doi:10.12973/eurasia.2017.01232a
• Lean, J., Illingworth, S., & Wake, P. (2018). Unhappy families: Using tabletop games as a technology to understand play in education. Research in Learning Technology, 26(0). doi:10.25304/rlt.v26.2027
• Machkovech, S. (2017, March 15). The CIA uses board games to train officers—and I got to play them. Retrieved March 26, 2017, from https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/the-cia-uses-board-ga…
• Triboni, E., & Weber, G. (2018). MOL: Developing a European-Style Board Game To Teach Organic Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 95(5), 791–803. doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00408
• Reese, R. M. (2017). The effects of a simulation game on mental models about organizational systems (Doctoral dissertation). Fielding Graduate University, California. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/pqdtft/docview/1879785898/abstra…
• Reeves, M., & Wittenburg, G. (2015, September 7). Games can make you a better strategist. Retrieved September 7, 2015, from https://hbr.org/2015/09/games-can-make-you-a-better-strategi…
• Spangler, R. (2016, March 3). What it feels like to think in a new way. Retrieved January 4, 2018, from https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/51721/what-it-feels-think…
• Tsarava, K., Moeller, K., & Ninaus, M. (2018). Training Computational Thinking through board games: The case of Crabs & Turtles. International Journal of Serious Games, 5(2), 25–44. doi:10.17083/ijsg.v5i2.248
• Benavides-Varela, S., Butterworth, B., Burgio, F., Arcara, G., Lucangeli, D., & Semenza, C. (2016). Numerical Activities and Information Learned at Home Link to the Exact Numeracy Skills in 5–6 Years-Old Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00094
• Braithwaite, D. W., & Goldstone, R. L. (2013). Integrating formal and grounded representations in combinatorics learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105(3), 666–682. doi:10.1037/a0032095
• Gonzalo-Iglesia, J. L., Lozano, N., & Prades-Tena, J. (2018). Noneducational board games in University Education: Perceptions of students experiencing Game-Based Learning methodologies. Revista Lusófona de Educação, 41, 45–62. doi:10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle41.03
• Hendrix, N. M., Hojnoski, R. L., & Missall, K. N. (2018). Promoting Numeracy Skills Through Board Game Play. Young Exceptional Children, 1096250618814239. doi:10.1177/1096250618814239
• Hromek, R., & Roffey, S. (2009). Promoting Social and Emotional Learning With Games: “It’s Fun and We Learn Things.” Simulation & Gaming, 40(5), 626–644. doi:10.1177/1046878109333793
• Li, H., Hsueh, Y., Wang, F., Bai, X., Liu, T., & Zhou, L. (2017). Do Young Chinese Children Gain Anthropomorphism after Exposure to Personified Touch-Screen and Board Games? Frontiers in Psychology, 8. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00055
• Masuda, R., & deHaan, J. (2015). Language in Game Rules and Game Play: A Study of Emergence in Pandemic. International Journal of English Linguistics, 5(6), 1.
• Ramani, G. B., & Scalise, N. R. (2018). It’s more than just fun and games: Play-based mathematics activities for Head Start families. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.07.011
• Sato, A., & de Haan, J. (2016). Applying an Experiential Learning Model to the Teaching of Gateway Strategy Board Games. International Journal of Instruction, 9(1), 3–16.
• Soylu, F., Holbert, N., Brady, C., & Wilensky, U. (2017). Embodied Perspective Taking in Learning about Complex Systems. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 28(3), 269–303.
• Weisz, J. D., Ashoori, M., & Ashktorab, Z. (2018). Entanglion: A Board Game for Teaching the Principles of Quantum Computing. In CHI PLAY ’18. Melbourne, Australia: ACM. doi:10.1145/3242671.3242696
• Cardinot, A., & Fairfield, J. A. (2019). Game-Based Learning to Engage Students With Physics and Astronomy Using a Board Game. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 9, 42–57. doi:10.4018/IJGBL.2019010104
• Nakao, M. (2019). Special series on “effects of board games on health education and promotion” board games as a promising tool for health promotion: a review of recent literature. BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 13. doi:10.1186/s13030-019-0146-3
• Rahaman, J., Agrawal, H., Srivastava, N., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2018). Recombinant Enaction: Manipulatives Generate New Procedures in the Imagination, by Extending and Recombining Action Spaces. Cognitive Science, 42(2), 370–415. doi:10.1111/cogs.12518
• Triboni, E., & Weber, G. (2018). MOL: Developing a European-Style Board Game To Teach Organic Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 95(5), 791–803. doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00408
• York, J., & deHaan, J. W. (2018). A Constructivist Approach to Game-Based Language Learning: Student Perceptions in a Beginner-Level EFL Context. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 8(1), 19–40. doi:10.4018/IJGBL.2018010102
• Wake, P., & Illingworth, S. (2018). Games in the curriculum. Learning and Teaching in Action, 13(1), 131–144.
• York, J., & deHaan, J. W. (2018). A Constructivist Approach to Game-Based Language Learning. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 8(1), 19–40. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJGBL.2018010102
• Hudrisier, Denis., The ImmunEscape project: sharing knowledge through serious escape game, ESOF,(2018) https://www.esof.eu/en/programme.html
• Canton-Vitoria, R., Tagmatarchis, N., Educational chemistry game: ChemiProject. Enjoy, play and learn! ESOF, (2018) https://www.esof.eu/en/programme.html
• Smale, M. A. (2015). Play a game, make a game: Getting creative with professional development for library instruction. The Journal of Creative Library Practice. Retrieved from http://creativelibrarypractice.org/2015/05/18/play-a-game-make-a-game/
• Homer, B. D., Kinzer, C. K., Plass, J. L., Letourneau, S. M., Hoffman, D., Bromley, M., … & Kornak, Y. (2014). Moved to learn: The effects of interactivity in a Kinect-based literacy game for beginning readers. Computers & Education, 74, 37-49.
• Homer, B. D., & Plass, J. L. (2014). Level of interactivity and executive functions as predictors of learning in computer-based chemistry simulations. Computers in Human Behavior, 36, 365-375.
• O’Keefe, P. A., Letourneau, S. M., Homer, B. D., Schwartz, R. N., & Plass, J. L. (2014). Learning from multiple representations: An examination of fixation patterns in a science simulation. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 234-242.
• Offenholley, K. (2014). Online Tutoring Research Study for Remedial Algebra. The Community College Journal for Research and Practice, Vol. 38 (9). Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10668926.2013.803941#.VAzSzvldWSo
• Offenholley, K., Wladis, C, George, M. (2014). Leveraging Technology to Improve Developmental Mathematics Course Completion: Evaluation of a Large-Scale Intervention, The Community College Journal for Research and Practice, Vol. 38 (12). Retreived from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.U3DmnygXLcU#.VAzQk_ldWSo
• Plass, J.L., Heidig, S., Hayward, E. O., Homer, B. D., & Um, E. (2014). Emotional design in multimedia learning: Effects of shape and color on affect and learning. Learning and Instruction, 29, 128-140.
• Plass , J.L., O’Keefe, P.A., Homer, B.D., Case, J., Hayward, E.O., Stein, M., Perlin , K. (2013). The impact of individual, competitive, and collaborative mathematics game play on learning, performance, and motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105(4), 1050-1066 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0032688.
• Bai, X., Duncan, R.O., Horowitz, B., Glodstein, S., Graffeo, J., Lavin, J. (2012). The added value of 3D simulations in healthcare education. Journal of Nursing Education. 4(2): 67-72.
• Bai, X., Lavin, J., Duncan, R.O. (2012). Are we there yet? Lessons learned through promoting 3D learning in higher education. The International Journal of Learning. 4(2): 67-72.
• Bisz, Joe. (2012). Composition Games for the Classroom. Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved from http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/cconline_Sp_2012/Composition_Games/compositiongames/Composition_Games_for_the _Classroom.html
• Homer, B.D., Hayward, E.O., Frye, J. & Plass, J.L. (2012). Gender and Player Characteristics in Video Game Play of Preadolescents. Computers in Human Behavior, 25(5), 1782-1789.
• Offenholley, K. (2012). Gaming your Mathematics Course: The Theory and Practice of Games for Learning, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Vol. 2 (2). Retrieved from http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol2/iss2/
• Offenholley, K. (2012). A Discourse Analysis of the Online Mathematics Classroom. The American Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 26 (4), 236-248
• Plass, J.L., Milne, C., Homer, B.D., Schwartz, R.N., Hayward, E.O., Jordan, T., Verkuilen, J., Ng, F., Wang, Y. & Barrientos, J. (2012). Investigating the Effectiveness of Computer Simulations for Chemistry Learning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49, 394-419.
• Smale, M. A. (2012). Get in the game: Developing an information literacy classroom game. Journal of Library Innovation, 3(1), 126-147. Retrieved from http://www.libraryinnovation.org/article/view/182
• Um, E., Plass, J.L., Hayward, E.O. & Homer, B.D. (2012). Emotional Design in Multimedia Learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104, 485-498.
• Bai, X., Horowitz, B., Duncan, R.O., Glodstein, S., Graffeo, J., Lavin, J. (2011). Designing Case Studies through 3D Simulations for the Health Professions. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. AACE.
• Offenholley, K. (2011). Toward an analysis of video games. Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College (JMETC), 2. Retrieved from http://journals.tc-library.org/index.php/matheducation/article/view/716
• Smale, M. A. (2011). Learning through quests and contests: Games in information literacy instruction. Journal of Library Innovation, 2(2), 36-55. Retrieved from http://www.libraryinnovation.org/article/view/148
• Homer, B.D. & Plass, J.L. (2010). Expertise Reversal for Iconic Representations in Science Visualizations. Instructional Science, 38, 259-276.
• Bisz, J. (2009). The birth of a community, the death of the win: player production of the ‘Middle-earth collectible card game.’ Transformative Works and Cultures No. 2.
• Plass, J.L., Homer, B.D., & Hayward, E. (2009). Design Factors for Educationally Effective Animations and Simulations. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 31-61.
• Homer, B.D., Plass, J.L., & Blake, L. (2008). The effects of video on cognitive load and social presence in computer-based multimedia-learning. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(3), 786-797.
• Lee, H., Plass, J.L., & Homer, B.D. (2006). Optimizing cognitive load for learning from computer-based science
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