A New Evaluation Technique Through Serious Games for Children with ASD

Abstract

Assessment at preschool age plays a crucial role in the process of learning especially for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), whom encounter communication difficulties as exchanging thoughts or information by speech, writing or nonverbal expression. Therefore, a welldesigned assessment method is necessary in order to guide learning and serve as a powerful tool to reinforce children's motivation to learn. Information about what a child with ASD knows, understands and is able to do is used by tutors to adjust their teaching strategies. All assessment methods have different purposes before, during or after instruction. Besides, formative assessment is the most recommended type that helps improving children's learning and it takes place during the learning process. Also, serious games provide a context for assessing a broader range of skills and constructs compared to traditional assessment approaches. In this article, we propose a new technique for evaluating the degree of concept's assimilation of children with ASD through serious games. It allows identifying concepts that children are struggling to understand and skills they are having difficulty acquiring.

Jogos Sérios como Subsídio Tecnológico na Educação de Crianças com Transtorno do Espectro Autista

“…Degree of Concept's Assimilation (DCA) [Najoua and Mohamed 2020] O Grau de assimilac ¸ão de conceitos é uma teoria do psicólogo russo Lev Vygotsky que se refere à forma como uma crianc ¸a aprende e assimila novos conceitos e ideias. Segundo Vygotsky, o processo de assimilac ¸ão de conceitos ocorre em diferentes estágios e níveis de compreensão, dependendo do desenvolvimento cognitivo da crianc ¸a.…”

“…Promover feedbacks sobre o desempenho durante o jogo [Chiluiza et al 2021, Wang 2022,Ghanouni et al 2021, Silva andBissaco 2022]. Informac ¸ões sem ambiguidades e com previsibilidade[Mohd et al 2019, Wang 2022, Najoua and Mohamed 2020, Kirst et al 2022]; • RU07. Interface sem poluic ¸ão visual (essencial)[Gyori et al 2018, Lu et al 2022]; • RU08.…”