This paper discusses varied ideas on games, learning, and digital literacy for 21st-century education as theorized and practiced by the author and James Paul Gee, and their colleagues. With attention to games as means for learning, the author links Gee’s theories to the learning sciences tradition (particularly those of the MIT Constructionists) and extending game media literacy to encompass “w...

In this paper I analyze the various factors that drive educational achievement across various countries using regression analysis. The causal model includes the variables which describe family background, learning resources, school characteristics, learning approaches, and class features to fully account for all of the features that contribute to educational achievement. The Programme for Inter...

Implicit theories have important implications for students' achievement goals and academic achievement. The Writer(s)-within-community model by Graham (2018) postulates that motivational beliefs stored in the long-term memory, such as implicit goals, influence how one approaches a writing task. Notwithstanding, few empirical studies examined relations among theories, performance. In this study,...