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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
Pages: 18
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ISSN: EISSN-1931-7913
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Fair Play: A Study of Scientific Workforce Trainers' Experience Playing an Educational Video Game about Racial Bias
Katz, Anna; Carnes, Molly; Gutierrez, Belinda; Savoy, Julia; Samuel, Clem; Filut, Amarette; Pribbenow, Christine Maidl
CBE - Life Sciences Education, v16 n2 Article 27 Jun 2017
Explicit racial bias has decreased in the United States, but racial stereotypes still exist and conspire in multiple ways to perpetuate the underparticipation of Blacks in science careers. Capitalizing on the potential effectiveness of role-playing video games to promote the type of active learning required to increase awareness of and reduce subtle racial bias, we developed the video game Fair Play, in which players take on the role of Jamal, a Black male graduate student in science, who experiences discrimination in his PhD program. We describe a mixed-methods evaluation of the experience of scientific workforce trainers who played Fair Play at the National Institutes of Health Division of Training Workforce Development and Diversity program directors' meeting in 2013 (n = 47; 76% female, n = 34; 53% nonwhite, n = 26). The evaluation findings suggest that Fair Play can promote perspective taking and increase bias literacy, which are steps toward reducing racial bias and affording Blacks equal opportunities to excel in science.
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Trainers, Educational Games, Video Games, Scientific Literacy, Role Playing, Ethnic Stereotypes, Labor Force Development, Learning Experience, Sensitivity Training, Online Surveys, Likert Scales, Qualitative Research, Critical Incidents Method, African Americans, College Faculty, Administrators, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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