Exploring the Use of a Digital Game as a Tool of Assessment

• In Event: RTD - Digital Games and Pattern Analysis for Learning Analytics

Short Description

This proposal reports on a Category 1 Completed Study. Digital games have shown the potential to function as an engaging and motivating learning environments. As important as engagement and motivation are to supporting learning, digital games also have the potential to serve as an effective and efficient assessment tool. This study purposed to explore the ability of a digital game designed to support conceptual understanding of the associative and distributive properties of multiplication, to also serve as a tool of assessment

Author

• Andre R. Denham, University of Alabama