We’re excited to share a new publication by Eileen McGivney, Tessa Forshaw, Rodrigo Medeiros, Mingyue Sun, and Tina Grotzer, which just came out in Education & Information Technologies! This team of NLL researchers investigated the impact of a job interview VR simulation on the emotions, confidence, and self-efficacy beliefs of jobseekers who have been impacted by the criminal justice system. By observing the implementation of this application in an authentic workforce development context, the study also addressed questions about how VR use and facilitation vary among participants. The authors found compelling evidence that a VR job interview simulation tailored to the experiences of people impacted by the criminal justice system can alleviate some of the emotional toll the job search takes on this vulnerable population, but did not find evidence of changes in their self-efficacy beliefs. The paper discusses ways participants described the simulation as authentic practice, and how its facilitation and use varied, emphasizing the importance of VR design as a tool within a broader instructional context.
You can read the full article here: https://rdcu.be/dg5fn