The capacity of games to assess 21st century skills in multiple collaborative environments

Abstract

Employment trends in the recent decades indicate that there has been a shift in workplace requirements, thus signifying a need in education and training to prepare individuals with more non-routine analytical and interpersonal skills for the 21st century workforce. As a response to rising demands new methods and techniques have been developed on how to teach and scaffold these skills among individuals. Games have emerged as an avenue to measure such complex skills. With technological advancement, it is now possible to use games with assessment design principles to capture information-rich student performances that reveal the processes by which students reach their answers. Games with their s..