Elementary Students' Thinking in an Escape Room Scenario: The Role of Claim-Making (Poster 3)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Nine
  In Poster Session: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts 2

Abstract

This qualitative research project analyzed students’ thinking as they engaged in a STEM-based learning activity set in an escape room that utilized a theme related to the movie The Matrix. The room was set in a Nordic university and required posing and solving a variety of mathematical problems to escape. Drawing on embodied cognition (Alibali & Nathan, 2018; Shapiro & Stolz, 2019) and an analytic framework developed by the Authors (2021, 2022), we provide evidence of the nature of student thinking in an authentic context, with a particular focus on the nature of the claims and reasoning offered by the students. Our results provide insight into student thinking at the intersection of formal and informal learning contexts.

Authors

• David Slavit, Washington State University - Vancouver
  Presenting Author

• Lasse Eronen, Eastern Finland University
  Presenting Author

• Kristin Lesseig, Washington State University - Vancouver
  Presenting Author

• Amber Simpson, Binghamton University - SUNY
  Presenting Author