‘Anti-Evasão’: uma framework de gamificação para aumentar o engajamento dos alunos nas disciplinas da UFC - Campus Quixadá

Abstract

Evasion has been a problem for a long time in exact courses and is also a problem in the courses of the Universidade Federal do Ceará - Campus Quixadá. Factors such as disapproval in disciplines and problems of relationships between students and institutions influence the permanence of students in the university. To combat evasion, this work proposes the creation of a gamification to try to increase the engagement and the participation of the students with the disciplines. The gamification was defined from the framework For the win: How game thinking can revolutionize your business and represents a generic set of activities that can be adapted by any teacher for any discipline. In order to evaluate the proposed gamification, the generic gamification was adapted to an Object Oriented Programming discipline and applied in a classroom of this discipline, using another classroom without the application of gamification as a form of control. The discipline was chosen for having registration locking and disapproval. This work presents the students' behavior and the changes gamification obtained during their application. At the end of gamification, a questionnaire was applied to the class and to the teacher to evaluate the participants' opinion about gamification, which influenced the performance of the discipline and whether gamification really engaged the participants. A comparison of the performance and attendance of the students of the same class of the same semester, ministered by the same professor was also performed to evaluate the effectiveness of gamification.