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Action-Based Learning Assessment in Virtual Training Environments

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Action-based learning plays an important role in today’s education, with assessment being an inevitable aspect that presently requires extensive financial and human expert resources. A major research area is dedicated to the development and implementation of systems to perform an automated or at least support formative assessment of human actions in action-based learning. That is, recognising and comparing the performed actions of the learner with the previously recorded actions undertaken by experts. Human actions are classified according to the developed taxonomy of human actions to facilitate a formative feedback for the learner. The action-based learning assessment method analyses the action sequences of the learners according to reference solutions (generated by experts) and automatically provides formative feedback to improve learner performance.

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The Australian Government Office has provided support for the production of this publication for Learning and Teaching (Grant: Development of an authentic training environment to support skill acquisition in logistics and supply chain management, ID: ID12-2498). The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.

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  3. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Fardinpour, A., Reiners, T., Wood, L.C. (2018). Action-Based Learning Assessment in Virtual Training Environments. In: Gregory, S., Wood, D. (eds) Authentic Virtual World Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6382-4_6

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