Stealth assessment : measuring and supporting learning in video games / Valerie Shute and Matthew Ventura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), 1953- author.

Ventura, Matthew, author.

Series:

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation reports on digital media and learning

The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation reports on digital media and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational tests and measurements.

Video games.

Genre:

Video games.

Physical Description:

vi, 91 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Summary:

To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Equipping K-16 students with these twenty-first-century competencies requires new thinking not only about what should be taught in school but also about how to develop valid assessments to measure and support these competencies. In Stealth Assessment, Valerie Shute and Matthew Ventura investigate an approach that embeds performance-based assessments in digital games. They argue that using well-designed games as vehicles to assess and support learning will help combat students' growing disengagement from school; provide dynamic and ongoing measures of learning processes and outcomes; and offer students opportunities to apply such complex competencies as creativity, problem solving, persistence, and collaboration. Embedding assessments within games provides a way to monitor players' progress toward targeted competencies and to use that information to support learning. Shute and Ventura discuss problems with such traditional assessment methods as multiple-choice questions, review evidence relating to digital games and learning, and illustrate the stealth-assessment approach with a set of assessments they are developing and embedding in the digital game Newton's Playground. These stealth assessments are intended to measure levels of creativity, persistence, and conceptual understanding of Newtonian physics during game play. Finally, they consider future research directions related to stealth assessment in education. Book jacket.

Contents:

Education in the Twenty-First Century 1

Problems with Current Assessments 7

Assessment Writ Large 8

Traditional Classroom Assessments Are Detached Events 10

Traditional Classroom Assessments Rarely Influence Learning 11

Traditional Assessment and Validity Issues 12

Digital Games, Assessment, and Learning 17

Evidence of Learning from Games 18

Assessment in Games 23

Stealth Assessment 31

Stealth Assessment in Newton's Playground 32

Conscientiousness Review and Competency Model 38

Creativity Review and Competency Model 46

Conceptual Physics Review and Competency Model 53

Relation of Physics Indicators to Conscientiousness and Creativity Indicators 57

Newton's Playground Study Procedure 63

Discussion and Future Research 67.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-91).

ISBN:

9780262518819

0262518813

OCLC:

822995135