A ferramenta Kahoot aplicada à disciplina de projeto e construção da superestrutura viária

Abstract

Games are practical tools with well defined rules and, when inserted in a suitable context, reinforce the capacity of their users to make decisions, work in teams and promote competences in individual and social sphere, with a focus on leadership. The games also begin to capture the skills, competences and the weaknesses of its users, thus enabling them to be directed towards meeting the proposed goal. Kahoot is an online tool based on Game Based Learning (ABJ), used as educational technology in classrooms in schools and universities, mainly because it is free. Realizing the practicality of the Kahoot platform and the benefits that the ABJ can provide to students and teachers, this article was developed with the objective of applying a quiz through the tool cited, in order to measure in which content the students had a mastery or difficulties in the discipline of Design and Construction concerning Road Superstructure. The proposed quiz consisted of the formulation of 38 multiple choice questions related to the subjects taught in the classroom until the date of their application. Through the results obtained it was possible to identify the contents, being possible in later classes the revision of some subjects, as well as a better direction of the discipline.