Wellville
Online Health Course Final Assessment
This game serves as the final exam for a Comprehensive Online Health course for high school students. In the assessment, students help people in a fictional town by returning their lost items and answering questions related to course content. This format allowed students to connect personally with the content and see the outcome of what they had learned over the semester.
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The game takes place in the fictional town of Wellville, where the residents need help finding their lost items and solving health-and-wellness issues in their lives.
A student enters and area and talks to characters to learn about their problems.
There are a variety of question types to keep the students engaged.
There are a variety of question types to keep the students engaged.
There are a variety of question types to keep the students engaged.
There are a variety of question types to keep the students engaged.
The game provides a steady sense of progress to keep the students excited and engaged.
As they answer more questions they collect more items, which in turn unlocks more questions to answer.
After the student has answered all the questions, their final challenge is a word challenge with a take-away lesson for the entire course.
Students reported that this format allowed them to feel more engaged with the content and more confident in their knowledge of the course materials.
Based on a survey conducted immediately following the proctored exam