RESEARCH:
SCORE: innovative GAME-BASED TRAINING
Operational readiness is a key aspect of great warfighters, so how do they stay at the top of their game? Classroom learning can help explain terms and concepts but lacks opportunities to practice. High-fidelity simulations and exercises provide detailed experience in using specific systems but are costly to run. SCORE is helping warfighters to bridge the gap—the system is simple to pick up and learn, and has enough depth to apply concepts in realistic scenarios.
A FLEXIBLE PLATFORM FOR DRIVING LEARNER READINESS
Project Details
Proposal Title:
SCORE: Simulated Challenge for Operational Readiness and Engagement
Agency:
Missile Defense Agency
Contract Number:
HQ0147-16-C-7545
Start Dates:
2015, 2016
Developed by TiER1 Performance and Boecore, Inc. as part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, SCORE (Simulated Challenge for Operational Readiness & Engagement) is an innovative game-based training platform designed to be:
- Effective. Learners gain and maintain their edge by putting concepts into practice in low-fidelity simulations.
- Engaging. Short scenarios, quick learning curve, competitive scoring, and immediate feedback make people want to play.
- Flexible. Easily integrate into any training plan with simple authoring tools, unclassified secure deployment, and low upgrade costs.
- Measurable. Automated analysis and detailed feedback help learners progress, while back-end analytics help trainers hone their approach.
How We Did It
In designing SCORE, we have incorporated best practices from the psychology of motivation and engagement during game design and simulation in the learning lifecycle. The SCORE platform gives learners the opportunity to apply skills in simulated scenarios with a well-defined scoring algorithm that maps the user’s actions and decisions to contributing competencies.
In the first game built in the SCORE platform, Threat from Above, this individual, game-style approach to missile defense training motivates warfighters to keep their skillset current, while tracking proficiency throughout their career. And if their skills aren’t up to snuff, the system can adapt scenarios to provide the customized experience they need to perform at their best. SCORE enables a data-driven, competency-centric learning lifecycle by integrating with external simulations, analyzing user interaction data, generating performance metrics, and presenting the user’s performance in a game design. By providing challenges personalized to the learner’s current skill level, the hours spent in training can be reduced. And by utilizing gamification techniques, learners will be motivated to hone and maintain their skillset through their career.
SCORE has a flexible authoring tool for creating and organizing scenarios into courses and campaigns to build a full training plan, and we see the potential for many use cases to improve training effectiveness in governmental, corporate, and academic training environments. For more information or to schedule a demo of SCORE to see it in action, please fill out the Let’s Talk form at the bottom of this page.
