Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

As people play computer games – to explore simulated worlds, combat foes and overcome challenges – the computer software monitors their progress. It continually collects data about players’ actions, making inferences about their goals and strategies to set appropriate new challenges.

This approach of continually tracking a person’s progress while providing immediate automated responses has been termed ‘stealth assessment’ and it is starting to be applied to educational games and simulations.