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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Educating moral sensitivity in business: An experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of a serious moral game
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Carmen Tanner
  • David Schmocker
  • Johannes Katsarov
  • Markus Christen
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Computers and Education
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0360-1315
Volume 178
Page Range 104381
Date 2022
Abstract Text Serious games have emerged as a promising new form of education and training. Even though the benefits of serious games for education are undisputed, there is still a further need for research on the efficacy of such games. The main goal of our research is to examine the effectiveness of a serious moral game—uFin: The Challenge—that was designed to promote moral sensitivity in business, a precondition of ethical decision-making and behavior and a core moral competency of moral intelligence. A second goal is to examine the role of metacognitive prompting and prosocial nudging in influencing learning effectiveness. Participants (N = 345) took part in an experimental game-based intervention study and completed a pre- and post-test questionnaire assessing moral sensitivity. The analyses of both questionnaire and game data suggest that merely playing this game is effective in promoting moral sensitivity. Neither self-reflection nor exposure to prosocial nudges, however, were determined to be factors that improve learning effectiveness. In contrast, those interventions even decreased the learning outcome in some cases. Overall, findings demonstrate the potential for game-based learning in the moral domain. An important avenue for future research is to examine others ways of increasing the effectiveness of the game.
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Official URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104381
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104381
Other Identification Number merlin-id:21817
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Keywords Education, General Computer Science