Structural, Functional, and Semiotic Symmetries in Simulation-Based Games and Assessments

Assessment of Problem Solving Using Simulations

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 59-80

  Behrens, John T ^a   Frezzo, Dennis ^a   Mislevy, Robert ^b   Kroopnick, Marc ^b   Wise, Daisy ^b  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315096773-4     Document Type: Chapter

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