Triseum Pilot Evaluation

Triseum, a US-American developer of educational games, tested its two learning games Arté: Mecenas (https://triseum.com/art-history/arte/mecenas/) and Variant: Limits (https://triseum.com/calculus/variant/) in schools in Greece, Poland, Italy, Norway, and Portugal.

The aim of this project was to research the impact of the games regarding motivation and learning outcomes as well as the potential and limitations of a classroom implementation in different international contexts. For this pilot, the team of the chair of school pedagogy, University of Würzburg, was responsible for the scientific evaluation in cooperation with European Schoolnet. The project successfully ended in June 2018.

Further information on the project and recordings of the final public webinars can be found on EUN’s Future Classroom Lab Homepage: http://fcl.eun.org/de/triseum-validation-pilot

The final evaluation report (Tiede, J., & Grafe, S. (2018). Triseum Game-Based Learning Validation Study Evaluation Report. Brussels: European Schoolnet), can be downloaded here: http://storage.eun.org/eun-form-submission/1226/Triseum_Pilot_report-1.pdf

If you have further questions, please contact jennifer.tiede@uni-wuerzburg.de.

Prof. Dr. Silke Grafe

Chair of School Pedagogy
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Tiede, J., & Grafe, S. (2018). Piloting Two Educational Games in Five European Countries: Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Motivation and Classroom Engagement. 2018 10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games.2018.8493438
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The following article will present first results from a project that explored the application of two educational games in school classes. The project included 20 teachers from Italy, Portugal, Norway, Poland, and Greece. The learning games used in this pilot were Variant: Limits™, an educational mathematics game about calculus, and ARTé: Mecenas™, an educational art history game about the Italian Renaissance, both by Triseum™, an educational game studio based in the US. The scientific evaluation of the game-based learning pilot included focus groups and focused on aspects of application modes and effects on student motivation, classroom engagement, and learning outcomes. In the following, the focus group results for motivation and classroom engagement will be introduced, and first conclusions will be drawn regarding the respective effects on students as perceived by the teachers. The overall results show that both games were successful in stimulating motivation and classroom engagement with the students, even though the effects varied between the two games in certain regards and were discovered to depend on numerous factors in the context of interpersonal differences.
Tiede, J., & Grafe, S. (2018). Triseum Game-Based Learning Validation Study Evaluation Report. Executive Summary - 2018. European Schoolnet. https://storage.eun.org/eun-form-submission/1226/Triseum_Pilot_EXECUTIVE_REPORT-1.pdf
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Triseum Pilot Evaluation

Prof. Dr. Silke Grafe

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