RT journal article
T1 Evidence-Based Assessment of Student Performance in Virtual Worlds
A1 Palomo Duarte, Manuel
A1 Berns, Anke
A1 Balderas Alberico, Antonio
A1 Dodero Beardo, Juan Manuel
A1 Camacho, David
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
A2 Ingeniería Informática
K1 virtual worlds
K1 VW-based games
K1 end-user development
K1 programming language
K1 interaction logs
K1 assessment
K1 language learning
AB Virtual Worlds (VWs) are popular tools for teaching/learning in the twenty-first century classroom. The challenge remains however, to provide the means by which teachers could sustainably analyse and assess the performance of large groups of students in such environments. Unfortunately, external game features such as game scores and play duration have turned out to be unfair in some assessments. In this context, a case study was carried out in a foreign language course, illustrating how teachers could easily retrieve a number of performance indicators from VW-interaction logs and harness them to conduct a fine-grained analysis of students' performance, while facilitating at the same time valuable tools for their assessment. Objective performance indicators in a server database were made accessible using an end-user development programming language. This way, a range of data visualisation methods could be employed to contrast different assumptions regarding learner performance when playing a VW-based game, which was designed to help CEFR A1 level students to learn German. This way, factors such as randomisation of game tasks, which could negatively affect learner performance, were alleviated.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2021
FD 2021-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24463
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24463
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026