Operation ARIES!: Learning Critical Thinking About Science with Intelligent Conversational Agents in a Game Environment

This presentation by Art Graesser and Heather Butler was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. The presentation discusses Operation ARIES, a game developed to foster skills in critical thinking about scientific inquiry and important concepts shared among psychology, sociology, biology, and chemistry. There are also details on how Operation ARIES can be used to assess students using a variety of learning principles and evaluation methods.