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The opinions expressed herein are personal opinions of the authors and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of the Academy of Digital Entertainment, Breda, NL. © Copyright 2009/2010
The opinions expressed herein are personal opinions of the authors and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of the Academy of Digital Entertainment, Breda, NL. © Copyright 2009/2010
A Serious Games (beta) Evaluation Rubric
|
Category |
Exemplary |
Proficient |
Partially Proficient |
Incomplete |
Points |
|
Complete, Correct and Well-Rounded Content
|
3 points |
2 points |
1 point |
0 points |
|
| Presents the player with a complete and balanced set of correct knowledge from the subject area. | Presents the player with an almost complete, correct and balanced set of knowledge. | Presents the player with some correct knowledge. | Provides no knowledge or what is provided is incomplete, incorrect or biased. | ||
|
Focused on the Topic |
Consistently
stays focused on the relevant educational topic and associated processes. |
Focuses on the
topic and processes most of the time. Includes some superfluous content. |
Focuses on the topic and processes some of the time. Includes a lot of superfluous content. | Content and game play are disconnected from one another. | |
|
Encourages Active Player Participation |
Player must
contribute a lot of effort to progress through the game, and the game encourages and supports the efforts of the player. |
Player must contribute some effort to progressing through the game and the game encourages these efforts. | Player must contribute very little effort to progress through the game and the game provides no encouragement to continue playing. | Player can progress through the game without any effort (like watching a movie). | |
|
Problem Solving |
The player must actively solve problems to progress through the game using knowledge and information gathered from previous game play tasks. | The player must refine solutions to problems from suggestions given in the game. | The player must select a solution to a problem from a set of choices given by the game. | The player does not need to solve problems to progress. | |
|
User Interface |
Very easy to use with little tutorial or explanation. | Easy to use after a tutorial. | Usable after sometime playing the game. | Very difficult and frustrating to use. | |
|
Genre |
Genre is appropriate for the player to get the most value from the game. | Genre is not the best that could be used but still provides suitable value. | Genre has not been chosen appropriately however the game has some value. | Inappropriate and inhibits the value of the game. | |
|
Integration of game play and content |
Game play is built around the knowledge and/or processes of the domain and hence highly connected. | Some of the game play is linked to domain knowledge. | None of the game play is linked to domain knowledge however the player gets a sense of how it could. | The game play has nothing to do with the domain knowledge. | |
|
Assessment |
Evaluating the player’s domain knowledge level is directly connected with challenges in the game. | Most of the challenges in the game test the players knowledge of the domain. | Some of the challenges in the game test the players knowledge of the domain. | None of the challenges in the game test the players knowledge of the domain. | |
|
Scalable |
Game is easily used by hundreds of players as it is by one. | Game can be implemented for many players but would experience a limit | The number of game players is marginally flexible. | The game experience for a single person would not be the same if hundreds were involved. | |
|
Interoperable
|
Game includes an interface to existing CMS or LMS (i.e. is SCORM or IMS compliant) | Has an interface to import and export data but only in proprietary format. | It is possible to get player results exported from the game. | Cannot import or export any data. | |
|
Editable
|
Game is fully configurable and content and game flow can be changed. | Game has a limited capability for customizing content. | Game has configuration options built in which provide different sets of game play. | Game cannot be changed. | |
|
Reusable
|
Players can play the game more than once and get a unique playing experience each time. | The game allows for random challenges each time it is played. | The game has a limited number of scenarios providing some replay possibility. | Game play is exactly the same each time it is played. | |
|
TOTAL |
Out of 36 |
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