Does gamifying homework influence performance and perceived gameful experience?

Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally, Maiga Chang, Yining Wang, Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy Yousef

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    Abstract

    There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of applying gamification in educational settings. This research developed an application to gamify students’ homework to address the concern of the students’ inability to complete their homework. This research aims to investigate students’ performance in doing their homework, and reflections and perceptions of the gameful experience in gamified homework exercises. Based on the data gathered from experimental and control groups (N = 84) via learning analytics, survey, and interview, the results show a high level of satisfaction according to students’ feedback. The most noticeable finding to extract from the analysis is that students can take on a persona, earn points, and experience a deeper sense of achievement through doing the gamified homework. Moreover, the students, on the whole, are likely to be intrinsically motivated whenever the homework is attributed to factors under their own control, when they consider that they have the expertise to be successful learners to achieve their desired objectives, and when they are interested in dealing with the homework for learning, not just achieving high grades.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number4829
    JournalSustainability (Switzerland)
    Volume13
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2021

    Keywords

    • Completion rate
    • Feedback
    • Gamification
    • Gamifying homework
    • Satisfaction
    • User experience

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