Learning Through Gamification in Higher Education

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Motivation; Engagement, Patient

Treatments: Behavioral: Gamification; Behavioral: Traditional teaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04284163

UCAM-Gamification (PID-12/19)

CE012001 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

"Health care legislation, management and administration" is a basic subject offered in the physical therapy university degree. The juridical features of this subject usually provokes a lack of motivation between students. Although not commonly used in university teaching, gamification could provide further affordances for improving students' engagement which provokes better assistance and learning outcomes.

Full description

• 51 students of "Health legislation, management and administration" subject of the Physical Therapy University Degree of the Catholic University of Murcia will be recruited.
• Participants will be randomly assigned into two groups: control group (traditional teaching methods) and intervention group (gamification).
• Class attendance and academic results will be register for future analysis.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students enrolled in the subject during academic year 19-20.
• Students included must not have taken the subject before.
• Students must be able to understand and speak the Spanish language.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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106 participants in 2 patient groups

Gamification group

Experimental group

Description:

Problem solving based methodology

Treatment:

Behavioral: Gamification

Traditional teaching group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Master lesson methodology

Treatment:

Behavioral: Traditional teaching