Psychometric and evidentiary approaches to simulation assessment in Packet Tracer software

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 555-560

  Frezzo, Dennis C ^a   Behrens, John T ^a   Mislevy, Robert J ^b   West, Patti ^c   DiCerbo, Kristen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Cisco Cisco Learning Inst

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Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TASKS; COMPUTER NETWORKING; INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE; MICROWORLD; PROCESS MODEL; SIMULATION ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION-BASED; STUDENT-CENTERED; TEACHING SKILLS; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650668205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNS.2009.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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