Measuring a Lack of Engagement in Raging Skies

A lack of engagement is bad for measurement via assessment (Kane, 2006). Traditional qualitative measures of a lack of engagement are error prone and expensive (V. Shute & Ventura, 2013). Thus, a quantitative approach is used in this study to attempt to address such issues. This study attempts to find a characteristic behaviour associated with a lack of engagement: Rapid-Guessing Behaviour (RGB; Wise, 2017). Data used during analysis comes from a project by Dr. Man-Wai Chu which studied learner data as they played a Game-Based Assessment (GBA; Chu & Chiang, 2018); A GBA is a game used as a platform for assessment (Ren, 2019). Analysis failed to reveal a strong link between RGB and a lack of engagement in this study. However, it is believed that learners with some behaviour patterns were exhibiting Enjoyment Seeking Behaviour; In short, they disengaged from the assessment to seek enjoyment elsewhere.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education Graduate Program – Educational Research

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Werklund School of Education

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Mattingly, Peter

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Clark, Douglass

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Clark, Douglas
• Sengupta, Pratim
• Greenberg, Matthew

• Engagement
• Assessment
• Validity
• Test Anxiety
• Game-Based Assessment
• Log Files
• Rapid-Guessing Behaviour

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• University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39539

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:1880/114327