David Niecikowski
Dr. David Niecikowski, a 27 year public education teacher and Touro University gifted education professor, will provide hands-on and interactive techniques in classroom game design and game play that can be used with students of all ages. (1) Game design topics include: analyzing existing game designs, design planners, rules writing, play testing, and design evaluation […]
Dr. David Niecikowski from Touro University will present best practices and research on meeting the academic and social needs of children through game play in school, library, club, after school, and family gathering settings. Dr. Niecikowski is the author of the book Game Design in the Classroom (2011) and, since 2019, teaches three of six […]
Recommendations include content area and grade level considerations as well as student developmental, ability, emotional, social, physical, and readiness (ZPD) needs. Game modifications and variants will also be discussed..
David Niecikowski, PhD will present his dissertation research on rulebook comprehensibility. The dissertation’s findings were co-constructed by 21 solicited surveyed industry experts and informed by unsolicited public forum comments by 541 users on the website Boardgamegeek. The evaluation results of eight published rulebooks are discussed using the performance list’s 92 weighted comprehensibility features organized into […]
David Niecikowski, PhD will present his dissertation research on rulebook comprehensibility. The dissertation’s findings were co-constructed by 21 solicited surveyed industry experts and informed by unsolicited public forum comments by 541 users on the website Boardgamegeek. The evaluation results of eight published rulebooks are discussed using the performance list’s 92 weighted comprehensibility features organized into […]
Presented comprehensible rulebook recommendations are based on Dr. Niecikowski’s dissertation findings that were co-constructed by 21 solicited surveyed industry experts and informed by unsolicited public forum comments by 541 users on the website Boardgamegeek. (1) Topics from the provided 200 page PDF include: reviewed literature recommendations on document design and BGG user feedback. (2) Topics […]