Digital Games Evaluation and Educational Assessment - a Review and Proposal for an Open Methodological Framework (OMEGA)

This paper aims to address two main goals: (a) to present the results of a literature review, regarding existing evaluation and educational assessment procedures of digital games; and (b) to propose an open methodological approach concerning the educational assessment of digital games (OMEGA), based on the findings of the literature review. This research aims at building, gradually, an open framework for evaluation and assessment methodologies on educational digital games. Moreover, it attempts to bring together game designers, educators and players into a common effort, regarding the issues involved. The starting point for architecting such an open methodological framework is a set of concepts pertinent to educational interventions; lesson plans constitute the core of this approach, whereas the educator, player, game and context perspectives also play an equally significant role, interacting with each other in a number of ways.