Gamificación: programa de intervención sobre la motivación de escolares de EGB en educación física

Abstract

Due to COVID-19, recently Physical Education (PE) has been adapted to an online form considering various teaching strategies where gamification provides meaningful experiences to students based on playful methodologies on the teaching of various aspects within the classes of PE taking innovation and motivation to act as essential points for the execution of this teaching method. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the intervention effects of a gamified program on the motivation of fifth-grade EGB students. For its execution, a pre-experimental method of quantitative order was chosen, in which 36 students participated during Physical Education classes at the "Herlinda Toral" Educational Unit in the city of Cuenca. The intervention program was carried out virtually and has been based on the movie "The Incredibles" where the main focus was to work on basic's physical qualities (endurance, strength, speed, and flexibility); the execution was developed in 12 sessions adjusting to the current context and the needs of the students. The Motivation in Physical Education questionnaire (CMEF) was used, which shows five categories on which the perception of the students towards the intervention of the gamified program is formed; this instrument was used before and after the intervention whose quantitative results show that statistically significant changes are presented in the last dimension of the profiles mentioned in CMEF since it positively increases the motivation and predisposition to learning of the students towards the practice during the classes in which gamification was used. (z = 2,6; p˂0,05)