Design and Implementation of a Serious Game Based on Recommender Systems for the Learning Assessment Process at Primary Education Level

Assessment is a crucial phase in the learning process. Its purpose is to measure the mastery degree of the acquired knowledge to take the appropriate decisions. The assessment phase accompanies the learner during the whole learning process by different types: diagnostic, formative and summative. In the context of e-learning, the choice of technological tool is still limited and sometimes insufficient to assess the totality of learners' pre-requisites as well as to cover their different profiles. For this, we need an adaptive assessment process that satisfies the cognitive needs and preferences of each learner. This paper presents a solution that combines recommender systems especially the collaborative filtering technique with serious games as a ludic tool for educational purposes. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is measured through a real experiment with a sample of learners and with a comparative analysis of the obtained results.