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Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 15;18(24). doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413210.

Effects of Gamification on the Benefits of Student Response Systems in Learning of Human Anatomy: Three Experimental Studies.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Juan J López-Jiménez, José L Fernández-Alemán, José A García-Berná, Laura López González, Ofelia González Sequeros, Joaquín Nicolás Ros, Juan M Carrillo de Gea, Ali Idri, Ambrosio Toval

Affiliations

  1. Department of Informatics and System, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
  2. Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
  3. Software Project Management Research Team, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat 10000, Morocco.

PMID: 34948818 PMCID: PMC8702114 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182413210

Abstract

This paper presents three experiments to assess the impact of gamifying an audience response system on the perceptions and educational performance of students. An audience response system called SIDRA (Immediate Audience Response System in Spanish) and two audience response systems with gamification features, R-G-SIDRA (gamified SIDRA with ranking) and RB-G-SIDRA (gamified SIDRA with ranking and badges), were used in a General and Descriptive Human Anatomy course. Students participated in an empirical study. In the academic year 2019-2020, a total of 90 students used RB-G-SIDRA, 90 students employed R-G-SIDRA in the academic year 2018-2019, and 92 students used SIDRA in the academic year 2017-2018. Statistically significant differences were found between final exam grades obtained by using RB-G-SIDRA and SIDRA, U = 39.211 adjusted

Keywords: E-learning; badges; experiment; gamified audience response system; human anatomy

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