What percentage of education is replaceable by genuinely engaging video games?
What parts of education cannot be replaced?
I’m especially interesting in how the social aspect of games alone could affect the qualify of a learning experience.
According to The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 100 Years of Research Findings, education has almost no correlation with job performance. In fact, education provides only 1% predictive ability.
Whether a resume says Yale or a community college, the school a candidate attended tells us little about how they will perform on the job. This is not to suggest that skills are not acquired or specific knowledge not attained from an education. They are.
However, there’s an assumption that education provides the training and experience for job performance. It does not. In fact, the education is a worse predictor of job performance than a candidate’s actual training and experience. In short, a good education does not equal a good employee.
References:
https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/how-good-is-education-at-predicting-job-performance/