Digital Badges for Stealth Assessment

Abstract

This chapter integrates stealth assessment, evidence-centered design, and digital badging research to examine how the stealth assessment process can benefit from the integration of digital badges. It examines design considerations for how badges can be used to interpret and restructure evidence in line with the competency model to create a more user-friendly way to communicate assessment results to both instructors and learners. The task model is related to goal setting to show how digital badges can be used to direct players toward the specific tasks of interest to improve the validity of competency models. The chapter concludes by investigating how these considerations can influence a more complete personalized learning system that implements frequent stealth assessment with digital badges.