Serious Educational Game Assessment: Practical Methods and Models for Educational Games, Simulations and Virtual Worlds

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Assessing Gaming, Computer and Scientific Inquiry Self-Efficacy in a Virtual Environment

   • Diane Jass Ketelhut

   Pages 1-18

3. Self-Regulation Within Game-Based Learning Environments

   • John Nietfeld, Lucy R. Shores

   Pages 19-42

4. The Wild West of Assessment

   • Christopher J. Ferguson

   Pages 43-56

5. Diagrammatic Inquiry

   • Owen Kelly

   Pages 57-73

6. Assessing Serious Educational Games

   • Leonard A. Annetta, Richard Lamb, Marcus Stone

   Pages 75-93

7. Game Assesement using the E/E Grid

   • Ricardo Javier Rademacher Mena

   Pages 95-117

8. Assessment Using After-action Review

   • Randy Brown

   Pages 119-129

9. Usability and Play Testing

   • Scott Warren, Greg Jones, Lin Lin

   Pages 131-146

10. Change is Constant; The Game is Serious

    • Kristen Cromer

    Pages 147-157

11. Learning in Virtual Worlds

    • Margaret Corbit, Jennifer Wofford, Suzanne Kolodziej

    Pages 159-174

12. Mitigating the Hawthorne Effect Using Computer Simulations

    • Shawn Y. Holmes

    Pages 175-187

13. Endogenous Learning in Multi User Virtual Environments

    • Dave R. Dannenberg, Michael A. Evans

    Pages 189-199

14. Art Education Avatars in Action

    • Lilly Lu

    Pages 201-219

15. Assessing Learning and Identity in Augmented Reality Science Games

    • Matt Dunleavy, Brittney Simmons

    Pages 221-240

16. Semi-virtual Embodied Learning-Real World STEM Assessment

    • Mina C. Johnson-Glenberg, David Birchfield, Philippos Savvides, Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz

    Pages 241-257

17. An Open-ended, Emergent Approach for Studying Serious Games

    • Matthew J. Sharritt

    Pages 259-277

In an increasingly scientific and technological world the need for a knowledgeable citizenry, individuals who understand the fundamentals of technological ideas and think critically about these issues, has never been greater.  There is growing appreciation across the broader education community that educational three dimensional virtual learning environments are part of the daily lives of citizens, not only regularly occurring in schools and in after-school programs, but also in informal settings like museums, science centers, zoos and aquariums, at home with family, in the workplace, during leisure time when children and adults participate in community-based activities. This blurring of the boundaries of where, when, why, how and with whom people learn, along with better understandings of learning as a personally constructed, life-long process of making meaning and shaping identity, has initiated a growing awareness in the field that the questions and frameworks guiding assessing these environments should be reconsidered in light of these new realities. The audience for this book will be researchers working in the Serious Games arena along with distance education instructors and administrators and students on the cutting edge of assessment in computer generated environments.

• educational technology
• games
• distance education

• George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Leonard Annetta

• Clemson University, Clemson, USA

  Stephen C. Bronack

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