Keenville

Client: Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Center for Assessment

On “Planet Peachy Keen,” the planet’s inhabitants, the Keens, are arguing and scaring the Peachlings away. It’s up to Georgia first and second grade students to play through minigames to bring the Peachlings back and subsequently bring balance back to the planet. Keenville, a literacy and math game-based assessment created in partnership between the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE), Georgia Center for Assessment, and FableVision Studios, is breaking ground as a fun and engaging alternative to the traditional classroom assessment. The game-based assessment has completed two phases of expansion, includes 31 minigames, a number of education and entertaining features per game, and a linking study involving thousands of Georgia public school children to assess impact.

Keenville transforms the traditional classroom by providing an engaging alternative to common testing. The game-based assessment aids students with test anxiety and assesses skills in ways that traditional tests cannot. The game aims to: (1) enable kids to feel like they’re playing a game and not taking a test, (2) provide teachers with data that they can interpret similarly to a traditional test, and (3) provide districts and the Georgia Department of Education with all of the generated data for deeper analysis. The collected data from the mini-games are easily accessible and relevant to people within different levels of education administration (students, teachers, districts, and parents).

A Peek Inside

 

Product: online game-based assessment

Tech Specs: HTML5

Age Range: grades 1-2

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