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Título
Increasing student motivation in computer programming with gamification
Autor(es)
Materia
Gamification
learning programming
teaching programming
programming problems
Clasificación UNESCO
1203.17 Informática
Fecha de publicación
2020
Citación
Figueiredo, J., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2020). Increasing student motivation in computer programming with gamification. In 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), (27-30 April 2020, Porto, Portugal) (pp. 997-1000). USA: IEEE.
Resumen
Games have important motivational power. They
take advantage of a set of tools to encourage people to engage
with them just for the joy of playing and the possibility to win.
While gamification is gaining ground in a lot of areas in our
society, its application in education is still an emerging trend.
In recent years, gamification has attracted the attention of
researchers from different areas such as teaching and learning
computer programming. Ever since the first programming
languages emerged, the problems inherent to programming
teaching and learning have been studied and investigated. The
theme is very serious, not only for the important concepts
underlying computer science courses but also for reducing the
lack of motivation, failure, and abandonment that result from
student frustration. In most of these studies and research one
factor prevails, lack of student motivation or how to motivate
students to learn programming. One way to combat this
problem is to use gamification. Using game design elements in
non-game contexts is one of the good ways to motivate and
encourage students to learn programming. To assess how
gamification impacted the learning experience, we compared
data from one gamified and non-gamified year. In general, the
results show significant improvements in terms of attendance
to class, participation, and proactivity. They also suggest that
our approach can reduce the high rate of failure grade among
students. In conclusion, this case study, we show how the use of
concepts related to gamification can improve motivation,
passion, beauty, joy, awe, e naturally the succeed in
programming.
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