Assessment: What is It? How do we do it?
Sandra Thaxter
Assessment in Game-Based Learning, Assessing Learning in Simulation-Based Environments, Assessment of Problem Solving and Higher Order Thinking, Engaged Learning, Games and Transformational Play, Learning Analytics, Measuring Learning in Informal Contexts
FURTHER READINGS
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Messick, S. (1994). The interplay of evidence and consequences in the validation of performance assessments. Education Researcher, 32(2), 13–23.
Mislevy, R. J. (1994). Evidence and inference in educational assessment. Psychometrika, 59, 439-483
Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., & Almond, R. G. (2003). On the structure of educational assessment. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspective, 1(1) 3–62.
Shute, V. J., & Ventura, M. (2013). Measuring and supporting learning in games: Stealth assessment. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Shute, V. J., Ventura, M., Bauer, M. I., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009). Melding the power of serious games and embedded assessment to monitor and foster learning: Flow and grow. In U. Ritterfeld, M. Cody, & P. Vorderer (Eds.), Serious games: Mechanisms and effects (pp. 295-321). Mahwah, NJ: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.