Conceptual Change in Sexual Consent Knowledge Through Game Play

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research in Progress Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Students and Faculty in Postsecondary Contexts: Issues and Challenges (Table 18)

Abstract

Sexual assault rates on American college campuses remain high, despite students' ability to accurately describe consent policies. Therefore, conceptual change in consent knowledge is needed, specifically for concrete knowledge to become more complex. In this paper, I briefly describe a pilot study examining how constructing a narrative through a card game revealed concrete consent knowledge in 21 undergraduates, as well as my plan to use narrative construction and gameplay to both facilitate and assess conceptual change in sexual consent knowledge with high school students in my dissertation research.

Author

• Caleb Probst, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Presenting Author