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sample of participants in different learning settings and from different countries would be recommended. In
addition, more rigorous studies with experimental design to examine the impact of GBL on students’
performances are also necessary to validate what we found in this study and provide teachers and educational
administrators with more research-based evidences about GBL impact.
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Sheryl Feinstein
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