Towards Mapping Competencies through Learning Analytics: Real-time Competency Assessment for Career Direction through Interactive Simulation

Puja Khatri; Khushboo Raina; Caroline Wilson; Michael Kickmeier-Rust

doi:10.1080/02602938.2019.1689382

Towards Mapping Competencies through Learning Analytics: Real-time Competency Assessment for Career Direction through Interactive Simulation

Puja Khatri, Khushboo Raina, Caroline Wilson, Michael Kickmeier-Rust

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Abstract

The selection of career paths and making of academic choices is a difficult and often confusing task for young people. The impact on their lives, however, is enormous as it can determine entire future career possibilities. In India, a general remedy to this stress is that instead of choosing a field of study tailored to individual preferences and strengths, topics are chosen that align with the traditional choices of the students’ families or their friends. This can have the effect of entrenching patterns of intergenerational inequity. The aim of this research is to give students greater access to the knowledge capital which will help them make better choices. This is achieved by engaging students in the career planning process, in order to convey information in a likeable and credible way. The COMPCAT (Competency and Career Assessment Tool) game engine combines the use of learning analytics and real time, interactive computer simulations designed to gain insights into the students’ engagement in the making of these complex decisions. This paper presents the conceptual architecture of the game and demonstrates its role in enhancing the learning effectiveness of the students.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	875-887
Number of pages	13
Journal	Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Volume	45
Issue number	6
Early online date	25 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1689382
Publication status	Published - 17 Aug 2020

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, on 25/11/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02602938.2019.1689382

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Learning analytics
digital educational games
higher education
career competency assessment
student engagement

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