IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/simgam/v40y2009i4p553-568.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Assessment in Simulation and Gaming

Author

Listed:
  • Jeffrey Chin

    (Le Moyne College, USA, chin@lemoyne.edu)

  • Richard Dukes

    (University of Colorado, USA, rdukes@uccs.edu)

  • William Gamson

    (Boston College, USA, gamson@bc.edu)

Abstract

This article examines the state of assessment in simulation and gaming over the past 40 years. While assessment has come slowly to many disciplines, members of the simulation and gaming community have been assessing the educational effectiveness of their experiential activities for years, in part because of skepticism from more traditional quarters that gaming and simulation are appropriate techniques to use in the classroom. These past efforts to demonstrate educational value usually went by names other than “assessment.†This article reviews research published in this journal using the keyword “assessment†plus a sample of pre-1990 meta-studies on evidence of educational effectiveness. The authors conclude with a discussion of two games, one familiar (SIMSOC) and one new (GLOBAL JUSTICE GAME) that may assist the reader in thinking about assessment strategies and related issues that need to be considered, in particular the role of agency versus structure.

Suggested Citation

  • Jeffrey Chin & Richard Dukes & William Gamson, 2009. "Assessment in Simulation and Gaming," Simulation & Gaming, , vol. 40(4), pages 553-568, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:simgam:v:40:y:2009:i:4:p:553-568
    DOI: 10.1177/1046878109332955
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1046878109332955
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/1046878109332955?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:simgam:v:40:y:2009:i:4:p:553-568. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.