Scaffolding Understanding by Redesigning Games for Education

The SURGE project focused on the development of video games to support students’ articulation and connection of their evolving tacit, intuitive understandings into larger, explicit formalized structures to allow knowledge transfer and application across broader contexts relevant to Newtonian mechanics. Research efforts centered on developing and assessing design principles and learning environments that integrate research on conceptual change, cognitive processing-based design, and socio-cognitive scripting.