Disciplines: Simulation Assessment
Health Sciences
Interactive cases are great assessment tools for assessing critical skills for health professionals. One study shows the use of multi-scenerio cases for the assessment of diagnosis skills and management plans for anesthesia resident students. In this case, seven different scenerios were presented to the students followed by a set of questionnaire for the assessment purpose. The instructor used a rubric and a 7-point scale to ensure an accurate and transparent evaluation of student performance (Blum et al., 2014).
Natural Sciences
Task-specific exercises during or after the simulation can assess students鈥� understanding of the subject matter and their ability to apply their acquired knowledge into practice. Starry Night鈩� is a planetarium software used to teach standards-based lunar concepts. This software has a series of task-based tests for the asseement of students鈥� understanding of different lunar episodes (Trundle & Bell, 2010).
Social Sciences
Combination of assessment tools can also be used to assess different aspects of students鈥� learning. Ambrosio (2004) used two assessment tools to assess his students in an Ethnic Conflicts course role-play simulation. The first assessment tool was a post-simulation discussion that demonstrated students鈥� understanding of theoretical dynamics encountered in ethnic conflict situations. The second assessment tool was a take-home exam which assessed students鈥� ability to connect their experience in simulation to the existing literature on ethnic conflicts. 聽