The Development of Story and Learning Driven by Assessment in Information Literacy Educational Game Wisdom Town

Formative assessment is able to promote learning and this could be fully used in educational game to produce better game-based learning. However what kind of feedback is effective in an information literacy educational game, and how formative assessments should be carried out, these problems need specific study. In the information literacy educational game Wisdom Town, a series of formative assessment are arranged to inspect game-based learning effects, at the same time, to drive the development of story and learning. It turns out that immediate feedback in this game is very helpful for students to learn knowledge about full-text journal databases. It is confirmed that formative assessment is able to promote learning in information literacy educational game, and multiple immediate feedback provides students opportunities to understand and apply knowledge.