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Digital Games for Assessment

There is no doubt that assessment plays an important role in teaching and learning. Teachers can collect data to better understand students’ mastery level of certain knowledge and skills, which promotes modifications, including, but not limited to, learning objectives, learning content, and pedagogy.  Generally speaking, assessments are categorized into formative assessment and summative assessment. Summative assessment means to evaluate students’ performance and learning outcomes at the end of a course unit. Formative assessment aims at identifying students’ area of struggles and strengths to help instructors provide ongoing feedback to improve students’ learning experience. In traditional formative assessments, teachers use pre-tests and post-tests to make a decision about what learning materials and content need to be taught. The goal of assessment is to measure students’ ability on a task. Nevertheless, only a few assessments results are used to improve learning. Accor...