Gamification in the University Classroom.

Gamification in the Classroom: Kahoot as a Tool for University Teaching Innovation.

This article aims to demonstrate the results of a study on the implementation of Kahoot as a gamification tool in university education. The objectives of this article are: to promote teaching by integrating the use of Kahoot to motivate students and increase their degree of interest and know the students' abilities. opinions on the implementation of this Gamification tool to teach grammar. The study uses a quasi-experimental research design over a four-month period observing variables such as attention, concentration and creativity, as well as social and personal skills.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: University Student
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Kahoot!™ Group

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 74
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Jaén, Spain, 23007
    • Agustín Aibar Almazán

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• University participants who were enrolled in the second year of the Physiotherapy Degree at the University of Jaén will be included.
• Study Period: Those participants who were available and participated in the study from September to December 2022 were considered.

Exclusion Criteria:

• University students who did not provide informed consent according to the study's ethical guidelines.
• Enrolled in at least one subject from another academic year.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Intervention Group; Students will be required to log in with a Pin number using a nickname that allows them to remain anonymous. Questions will be displayed on a large screen with four graphic shapes along with a countdown timer, and students will respond using their internet-enabled digital device. Students will choose, from four options, the possible answer by selecting the graphical shape, which they believe is correct, and will receive instant feedback accordingly. After each question, the game will rank players based on their speed and accuracy. The system will award a higher score to the student who enters the correct answer first. At the end of the quiz, the names of the top five players will be displayed on the leaderboard. The results can then be downloaded to highlight problematic questions and identify students who may be struggling.

Other: Kahoot!™ Group; The theoretical concepts of each subject were taught over a period of four months, with a total duration of 30 hours. Of the total theoretical concepts of the subject, 50% were randomly selected to receive reinforcement through Kahoot! Each of the theoretical concepts chosen at random was consolidated through a Kahoot! questionnaire. which consisted of 15 questions, with three answer options. This questionnaire was administered at the end of the theoretical explanation of each section, with the objective of strengthening the learning of the contents just presented. After students answered each question in Kahoot!, the teacher clarified any questions related to that question and provided explanations as to why one answer was correct and the other two were incorrect. This process offered immediate feedback to students.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
D2 test	Evaluates selective attention and concentration in the school context. The participant's task is to check carefully, starting from left to right, what is written on each line and must mark all the letters that have two small lines (two below, two above or one below and one above) with a "d". ". These elements are considered relevant. The other combinations (the "d" and the "p", with and without dashes) are considered irrelevant and should not be marked. The participant has 20 s for each line. This test has shown excellent reliability, with ranges between 0.90 and 0.97 for both Cronbach's α and the test-retest, and has also shown convergent and divergent validity.	Up to twelve weeks
Creative intelligence test (CREA)	Evaluates creative intelligence by asking questions about an image. The participant, without opening the image, fills in spaces with provided data. Then the image is shown, and the task is to ask as many questions as possible. Questions are evaluated according to specific guidelines, scoring positively appropriate questions and penalizing decontextualized ones. Additional points are awarded for compound questions. The final score is calculated considering the number of questions, omissions, canceled answers and extra points. A high score (75-99 points) indicates excellent creative abilities, medium (26-74 points) indicates a moderate level of creativity, and low (1-25 points) suggests limited creative ability.	Up to twelve weeks
The ability subscale of the SEQ developed by Kember & Leung	Will be used to collect data on students' reflections on the development of their generic abilities. It consists of 16 items that measure eight aspects of ability: critical thinking (2 items), creative thinking (2 items), self-managed learning (2 items), adaptability (2 items), problem solving (2 items), communication skills . (2 items), interpersonal skills and group work (2 items) and computer knowledge (2 items). Responses were recorded on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 5 ("strongly agree") to 1 ("strongly disagree"). The questionnaire also contains two open-ended questions to gather feedback on the best aspect and the one that needs improvement the most. In this study, the reliability of the ability subscale was high, with Cronbach's alphas of 0.86 and 0.92.	Up to twelve weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Jaen

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 4, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 11, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): December 22, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 15, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 15, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): November 22, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): March 5, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 2, 2024
• Last Verified: March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: -UJA

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No