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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge The MIT Press 2013

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted goals.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.

Contents:

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Education in the Twenty-First Century

Problems with Current Assessments

Assessment Writ Large

Traditional Classroom Assessments Are Detached Events

Traditional Classroom Assessments Rarely Influence Learning

Traditional Assessment and Validity Issues

Digital Games, Assessment, and Learning

Assessment in Games

Stealth Assessment

Stealth Assessment in Newton's Playground

Conscientiousness Review and Competency Model

Creativity Review and Competency Model

Conceptual Physics Review and Competency Model

Relation of Physics Indicators to Conscientiousness and Creativity Indicators

Newton's Playground Study Procedure

Discussion and Future Research

Appendixes

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262315210

0262315211

OCLC:

832316012

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access