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gaming the system: a standalone construct

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Educational technology

students exploiting a learning system's help or feedback to get through tasks without actually learning the material.

In educational technology, gaming the system refers to students exploiting a learning system's help or feedback to get through tasks without actually learning the material. This meaning comes from Baker (2004) in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.[1]

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Baker, R. S., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., & Wagner, A. Z. (2004). Off-task behavior in the cognitive tutor classroom: when students "game the system". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/985692.985741

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