SIG Assessment: Evaluating Simulation-Based Learning

The final SIG:Assessment of the year met on Tuesday June 3 to explore how educators can effectively evaluate simulation-based learning technologies.

Pat Youngblood, Education Consultant, and Cammy Huang, Virtual Labs Project Director at SUMMIT/Learning Tech in the Stanford University School of Medicine discussed the challenges, strategies, and protocols behind moving educational technology materials from "lab to learner" and into the curriculum.

Huang and Youngblood explained the evaluation framework used for SUMMIT projects, from concept to implementation, and demonstrated case scenarios for the Virtual Labs Project, designed to train higher-level cognitive skills, and Virtual Training in Laparoscopic Surgery, developed to teach the technical skills necessary to perform surgery.

SCIL sponsored the monthly SIG:Assessment to bring together faculty, researchers, and students on campus and throughout the Bay Area who work on practical ways to evaluate new instructional methods. The SIG:Assessment is directed by Daniel Schwartz, Professor, Stanford School of Education.

SIG:Assessment meetings will resume in the Fall 2003. To be added to the SIG:Assessment mailing list, please email Nora Sweeny: noras4@stanford.edu.

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