Differences Between Facilitator-Guided and Self-guided Debriefing on the Attitudes of University Students

Toshiko Kikkawa, Willy Christian Kriz, Junkichi Sugiura

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Abstract

In this study, we investigated the effects of debriefing on 196 Japanese University students as part of an international collaboration between Austria and Japan. Based on the results of our previous studies [19–21], we showed that debriefing can bolster learning from the perspective of attitude changes and performance in games. However, there were weaknesses to previous studies in the sense that there were no facilitators to conduct the debriefings. In the experiments, all types of debriefing were carried out by students, i.e. self-guided. However, debriefing is usually conducted by a facilitator and carried out in a group. To address this weakness, we introduced facilitator-guided debriefing for the experimental conditions. Therefore, there were two experimental conditions: facilitator-guided debriefing and self-guided debriefing. After debriefing, groups of four participants played the Highway Planning game, which deals with co-operation and conflict. According to the results, the participants under facilitator-guided debriefing conditions showed more cooperative attitudes than did those under self-guided debriefing conditions, while participants in the self-guided debriefing group showed more competitive attitudes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSimulation Gaming Through Times and Disciplines - 50th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2019, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMarcin Wardaszko, Sebastiaan Meijer, Heide Lukosch, Hidehiko Kanegae, Willy Christian Kriz, Mariola Grzybowska-Brzezińska
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages14-22
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030721312
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event50th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2019 - Warsaw, Poland
Duration: 2019 Aug 262019 Aug 30

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11988 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference50th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2019
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWarsaw
Period19/8/2619/8/30

Keywords

  • Attitudes
  • Conflict
  • Facilitator-guided debriefing
  • Learning
  • Self-guided debriefing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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