NCT04284163

Learning Through Gamification in Higher Education

Learning Through Play in a University Degree: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

"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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Motivation
• Engagement, Patient

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Gamification	Teaching through gamification
BEHAVIORAL	Traditional teaching	Teaching through master lesson methodology

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-27
• Primary completion: 2020-11-03
• Completion: 2020-11-03
• First posted: 2020-02-25
• Last updated: 2020-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain