Validation of the Team Trust Game: a Serious Game for the Assessment of Cooperation Skills

This study addresses the need for a new measurement method for assessing cooperation skills in an organizational context by developing a serious game: The Team Trust Game. A theoretical framework for cooperation was made consisting of five cooperation components: coaching, collaboration, empathy, integrity and loyalty. Additionally, the study looked into the relationship between cooperation and trust and knowledge sharing and the personality dimensions extraversion and agreeableness. The quality of this new type of measurement was assessed by its construct validity, congruent validity, face validity, and usability. Seventy-nine participants filled in a self-rated questionnaire and played the serious game. Results showed that even though participants had positive perceptions of the serious game, it did not show significant correlations between cooperation as measured in the game and the self-rated cooperation. Future studies should further investigate the use of serious games for the measurement of competencies like cooperation within an assessment context.