Nuclear Proliferation Awareness: The Peace Doves Case Study
Abstract: This paper reports on a study conducted with undergraduates (n=17) preparing to become elementary, middle, and high school teachers in varied domains (i.e. mathematics, history). The context was pedagogy, where participants investigated different forms of technology-based instructional methods to communicate content. Pre-post test design was employed to determine content retention, game score to determine learning, and an adapted Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) was used to measure participants’ experience after playing the social awareness game, Peace Doves. Learning about nuclear proliferation through a social awareness game format revealed significance in retention rate, game scores associated with intrinsic motivation, and cognition with 4.18 missions won, on average.