Using immersive virtual environments to assess science understanding: The impact of contextualization

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ketelhut, Diane Jass ^a   Shelton, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Scientific inquiry; Situated; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CONTEXTUALIZATION; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS; SCIENCE ASSESSMENTS; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; SITUATED;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84897750924     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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