Keenville transforms the traditional classroom by providing an engaging alternative to common testing.

Keenville, a literacy and math game-based assessment created in partnership between the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE), Georgia Center for Assessment, and FableVision Studios, is breaking ground as a fun and engaging alternative to the traditional classroom assessment.

The game-based assessment aids students with test anxiety and assesses skills in ways that traditional tests cannot. The game aims to: (1) enable kids to feel like they’re playing a game and not taking a test, (2) provide teachers with data that they can interpret similarly to a traditional test, and (3) provide districts and the Georgia Department of Education with all of the generated data for deeper analysis. The collected data from the mini-games are easily accessible and relevant to people within different levels of education administration (students, teachers, districts, and parents).

The game-based assessment has completed two phases of expansion, includes 31 minigames, a number of education and entertaining features per game, a comprehensive dashboard and reporting functionality for teachers, educators, and admins, and a linking study involving thousands of Georgia public school children to assess impact.