TeachQuest: Designing and testing a ‘serious game’ to attract prospective teachers. Department of Education is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Recruiting sufficient numbers of high quality teachers is an international problem, with shortages especially acute in STEM-related subjects. The goal of our research programme is to develop scalable and effective research-informed interventions that can raise the interest and confidence of university students to consider teaching as a career. With the support of funding from the ESRC, we are developing and testing a motivation theory-informed ‘serious game’ called TeachQuest designed to engage STEM undergraduates in solving authentic challenges faced by first-year teachers. I will start the talk by highlighting the scale of the teacher recruitment crisis in England and present work from 2021-2023 that developed teacher recruitment interventions now implemented by the DfE. Next, I will outline how we are developing TeachQuest and discuss the challenges of integrating motivation theories with player engagement. Finally, I will present some of our early results from the testing of TeachQuest in the UK.

Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/85842854046?pwd=dVpCemVmcWZFemdTV2ZhaE4xZXJhZz09
Date: 29 April 2024, 12:45
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Zoom
Speaker: Professor Robert Klassen (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Education
Organiser: Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Hannah Freeman, Heather Sherkunov