(168) EFFICIENT STUDENT EVALUATION SYSTEM VIA A COMPUTERIZED BOARD GAME SYSTEM

摘要

Examination based student evaluation system has received a lot of criticisms due to its incapability ofevaluating the true potential of a students. It is often related to memorize and recall ability over a givenspecific time period of examination. This work proposes a new approach of evaluating student skillsand knowledge through a spontaneous game play activity. A board game is invented to fit the schoolsyllabus and can be played by the primary and secondary school students. The game put together 6students in a session, run through an exciting game quest structured in a form of problem basedlearning concept. The questionsare customizable according to the predefined subject and topics. Theapproach has revealed that, the students are much more motivated to answer the questions and ableto utilized the knowledge that was taught in the classroom effectively. This is driven by the clearobjective of solving the given problem and the ability to relate to skills and knowledge that is requiredto solve the given problem. The performance of each student is tracked where the strength orweakness can be immediately identified in relation to a specific subject, topic and subtopic.