Game-based assessment: Can games themselves act as assessment mechanisms? A case study

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 404-411

  Charlier, Nathalie ^a   Clarebout, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assessment; Game based; Health education; Summative evaluation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; TEACHING;

ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT MECHANISM; GAME-BASED; HEALTH EDUCATION; OBSERVATION MATRIX; PRE-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING; SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SUMMATIVE EVALUATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84938589748     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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