Advancing Evaluation Practice with Serious Games

Autor/inn/en	Olejniczak, Karol; Newcomer, Kathryn E.; Meijer, Sebastiaan A.
Titel	Advancing Evaluation Practice with Serious Games
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 41 (2020) 3, S.339-366 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Olejniczak, Karol)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214020905897
Schlagwörter	Evaluation Methods; Stakeholders; Participation; Evaluation Utilization; Public Policy; Evaluators; Video Games; Computer Games; Change; Competence; Teaching Methods; Technology Uses in Education; Workshops; Testing; Computer Simulation; Transportation; Rural Areas; Hospitals; Foreign Countries; Sweden (Stockholm); Poland; United States; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teilnahme; Öffentliche Ordnung; Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Computer game; Computerspiel; Computerspiele; Wandel; Kompetenz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Verkehrswesen; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Krankengymnast; Krankenhaus; Ausland; Polen; USA; Niederlande
Abstract	Evaluation professionals need to be nimble and innovative in their approaches in order to be relevant and provide useful evidence to decision-makers, stakeholders, and society in the crowded public policy landscape. In this article, we offer serious games as a method that can be employed by evaluators to address three persisting challenges in current evaluation practice: inclusion of stakeholders, understanding of causal mechanisms, and utilization of evaluation findings. We provide a framework that distinguishes among games along two crucial aspects of evaluation inquiry - its function and the nature of the evaluand. We offer examples of successfully implemented games in each set of the four arenas we delineate: teaching knowables, testing retention, crash-testing mechanisms, and exploring systems. We explain how games can be employed to promote learning about and among stakeholders, and to collect valuable intelligence about the operations of programs and policies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01