{"schemaVersion":1,"record":{"key":"mechanic/education--family-54","type":"mechanic","id":"education--family-54","lang":"en","title":"Feedback and consequences","summary":"The game immediately links a response to success, an error or a consequence, helping the learner decide what to change next.","updatedAt":"2026-10-22","status":"active","url":"https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/education--family-54/","jsonUrl":"https://gamemechanics.pro/api/v1/knowledge/en/mechanic/education--family-54.json","markdownUrl":"https://gamemechanics.pro/content/knowledge/en/mechanic/education--family-54.md","aliases":[],"tags":["Educational games","Learning, feedback and assessment"],"sourceIds":["source-9125b39e06f4f673"],"sources":[{"id":"source-9125b39e06f4f673","title":"Duolingo","url":"https://blog.duolingo.com/covering-all-the-bases-duolingos-approach-to-reading-skills/","verifiedAt":null}],"sections":[{"id":"principle","title":"How it works","body":"Show immediate results"},{"id":"variants","title":"Variants","body":"### Variants\n\n<a id=\"family-54-branch-1\"></a>\n\n- Show immediate results <a id=\"family-54-variant-1\"></a>\n- Show results after action sequences <a id=\"family-54-variant-2\"></a>\n- Explain error causes <a id=\"family-54-variant-3\"></a>\n- Show world consequences <a id=\"family-54-variant-4\"></a>\n- Compare with a model <a id=\"family-54-variant-5\"></a>\n- Highlight the wrong step <a id=\"family-54-variant-6\"></a>\n- Offer self-checking <a id=\"family-54-variant-7\"></a>\n- Allow answer revision <a id=\"family-54-variant-8\"></a>\n- Allow retries <a id=\"family-54-variant-9\"></a>\n- Discuss several valid solutions <a id=\"family-54-variant-10\"></a>\n- Show improvement over earlier attempts <a id=\"family-54-variant-11\"></a>\n- Give meaningful character responses <a id=\"family-54-variant-12\"></a>"},{"id":"example","title":"Design example","body":"A miscalculated support fails to hold a bridge, and the game shows the problem."},{"id":"context","title":"Context and limits","body":"A mechanic map for games with explicit learning goals, from first encounters with a topic to professional practice. It covers children, teenagers and adults; choose subject, difficulty, context and controls for the learner. Player actions, subject content, instructional support and assessment are distinct layers. Scores and game completion alone do not establish mastery or skill transfer."}],"relations":[],"placements":[{"catalogId":"education","id":"family-54","title":"Educational games","url":"https://gamemechanics.pro/en/mechanics/education/#family-54","categoryIds":["learning"]}],"supersededBy":[],"attributes":{"preview":{"updatedAt":"2026-10-22","title":"Feedback and consequences","description":"The game immediately links a response to success, an error or a consequence, helping the learner decide what to change next.","image":{"src":"images/mechanics/learning-duo-reading-4.webp","width":810,"height":1440,"game":"Duolingo","sourceUrl":"https://blog.duolingo.com/covering-all-the-bases-duolingos-approach-to-reading-skills/","originalUrl":"https://storage.ghost.io/c/7a/33/7a33d0f4-927d-4fe8-a6bf-96131b5e76d4/content/images/2020/10/IMG_3465.PNG","credit":"Duolingo","rights":"© Duolingo. All rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.","caption":"Duolingo: feedback on a reading-comprehension answer","alt":"Duolingo: feedback on a reading-comprehension answer","markers":[{"x":44,"y":88,"label":"Excellent! confirms the selected answer"}]},"tips":["Explain why the result occurred instead of relying on green or red alone."],"examples":[{"title":"Duolingo","url":"https://blog.duolingo.com/covering-all-the-bases-duolingos-approach-to-reading-skills/"}]}},"endsAt":null,"provenance":"Educational reference expanded from all 64 families and 749 variants of the original children-education taxonomy, with original editorial additions dated 2026-10-20. Sources support specific methods and examples, not the entire classification or its effectiveness.","license":"CC-BY-4.0","codeLicense":"MIT","attribution":"gamemechanics.pro contributors","catalogKey":"catalog/education"}}