Gamificação, engajamento e aprendizagem na educação básica

Abstract

Thinking about the way students learn nowadays, this work aims to develop and apply a game using gamification to engage the learning of the four numerical operations and expressions in the mathematics discipline within a 5th-grade classroom at the UFPB’s School of Basic Education (EEBAS). This research is a quantiqualitative approach, of the sequential type, in addition to being an action research, whose empirical work was constituted from activities carried out in the 5th year of the morning of the EEBAS. The subjects participating in this study were the students and the teacher of that room, who, during the period of dynamics, participated and answered the questionnaire to evaluate the proposed activities. Used instruments with open and closed questions, in addition to participant observations. As a final synthesis, it can be stated that the teaching-learning processes carried out in basic education, with the support of gamification, presuppose a qualitative transformation of student engagement in class and not just a transposition of learning methods, initially designed for teaching centered on the teacher, didactically expository, and which reduces the evaluative dimension of the teaching-learning process to the mere performance of exercises and the application of knowledge. As a continuation of this study, in light of the theoretical foundations of gamification, we will seek to reassess the instruments, strategies, and categories of analysis used and propose new uses.