The highly informative Virtual Games for Science Education: Design, Method, and Assessment poses the core, essential questions of planning, development, communication, implementation, management, and evaluation of virtual games in middle school science classrooms, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The author has meticulously put together a framework that demonstrates the best practice in the integration of educational science games, enhancing for its audience their pedagogical skills for facilitating more engaging and effective learning to maximize all middle schoolers self-efficacy in learning science, value of science, motivation in science, and perceptions of game-like science learning in 2D and 3D virtual environments.

Li-Wei Peng has a Ph.D. degree in C&I Instructional Technology from Ohio University. With over a decade teaching and researching collaborative, game-based STEM education by using virtual environments, Li-Wei has a uniquely innovative voice that shines through in her book on the design, method, and assessment of virtual games for science education.