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Assessing Serious Educational Games

The Development of a Scoring Rubric

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Serious Educational Game Assessment

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Games can train and teach just like teachers do in a traditional sense. However, bad games (like bad teachers/trainers) don’t teach well. A standard for Serious Educational games must be established. This chapter discusses the rationale, development, and psychometrics of a Serious Educational Game Rubric.

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  1. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

    Leonard A. Annetta, Richard Lamb & Marcus Stone

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  1. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Leonard Annetta

  2. Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA

    Stephen C. Bronack

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Annetta, L.A., Lamb, R., Stone, M. (2011). Assessing Serious Educational Games. In: Annetta, L., Bronack, S.C. (eds) Serious Educational Game Assessment. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-329-7_5

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