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Instructional Techniques to Facilitate Learning and Motivation of Serious GamesAssessment and Adaptation in Games

Instructional Techniques to Facilitate Learning and Motivation of Serious Games: Assessment and... [Digital games are very popular in modern culture. We have been examining ways to leverage these engaging environments to assess and support important student competencies, especially those that are not optimally measured by traditional assessment formats. In this chapter, we describe a particular approach for assessing and supporting student learning in game environments—stealth assessment—that entails unobtrusively embedding assessments directly and invisibly into the gaming environment. Results of the assessment can be used for adaptation in the form of scaffolding, hints, and providing appropriately challenging levels. We delineate the main steps of game-based stealth assessment and illustrate the implementation of these steps via two cases. The first case focuses on developing stealth assessment for problem-solving skills in an existing game. The second case describes the integration of game and assessment design throughout game development, and the assessment and support of mathematical knowledge and skills. Both cases illustrate the applicability of data-driven, performance-based assessment in an interactive game as the basis for adaptation and for use in formal and informal contexts.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Instructional Techniques to Facilitate Learning and Motivation of Serious GamesAssessment and Adaptation in Games

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-39296-7
Pages
59 –78
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-39298-1_4
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Abstract

[Digital games are very popular in modern culture. We have been examining ways to leverage these engaging environments to assess and support important student competencies, especially those that are not optimally measured by traditional assessment formats. In this chapter, we describe a particular approach for assessing and supporting student learning in game environments—stealth assessment—that entails unobtrusively embedding assessments directly and invisibly into the gaming environment. Results of the assessment can be used for adaptation in the form of scaffolding, hints, and providing appropriately challenging levels. We delineate the main steps of game-based stealth assessment and illustrate the implementation of these steps via two cases. The first case focuses on developing stealth assessment for problem-solving skills in an existing game. The second case describes the integration of game and assessment design throughout game development, and the assessment and support of mathematical knowledge and skills. Both cases illustrate the applicability of data-driven, performance-based assessment in an interactive game as the basis for adaptation and for use in formal and informal contexts.]

Published: Nov 1, 2016

Keywords: Stealth assessment; Adaptation; Bayesian networks

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