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The purpose of this systematic literature review is to give a state-of-the-art overview of how learning assessments have been used in studies using Immersive Virtual Environment (IVE) and its applications in education. Forty-six studies were reviewed and categorized according to: type of knowledge, technological immersion, skills learned, context, techniques, processes and methods of assessment. This review identified scarcity of studies focusing conceptual knowledge assessment, few studies using qualitative assessments as well as paucity of artificial intelligence methods applied in learning assessments. Research gaps are discussed and future studies on the use of IVE in education are suggested.
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Anna Carolina Muller Queiroz thanks CNPq, process n. 141876/2017-4. During this research, Romero Tori was sponsored by a grant from FAPESP (process 2016/26290-3) and received a scholarship from CNPq (process n.311991/2015-7).
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Queiroz, A.C.M., Nascimento, A.M., Tori, R., da Silva Leme, M.I. (2019). Immersive Virtual Environments and Learning Assessments. In: Beck, D., et al. Immersive Learning Research Network. iLRN 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1044. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23089-0_13
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