Gamification in Software Engineering Education: An Empirical Study

Souza, Maurício; Constantino, Kattiana; Veado, Lucas; Figueiredo, Eduardo

doi:10.1109/cseet.2017.51

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“…According to Dicheva et al [22], the sector in which gamification has been applied the most is education. In education, several literature reviews have been conducted to describe its state-of-the-art [22][23][24]; to report on the game elements most used in education [25]; to give an overview on the available gamification design frameworks [26]; to investigate the effects of gamification on students in face-to-face and blended situations [27][28][29][30].…”

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The Effects of Gamification in Online Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review

2019

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Gamification has recently been presented as a successful strategy to engage users, with potential for online education. However, while the number of publications on gamification has been increasing in recent years, a classification of its empirical effects is still missing. We present a systematic literature review conducted with the purpose of closing this gap by clarifying what effects gamification generates on users’ behaviour in online learning. Based on the studies analysed, the game elements most used in the literature are identified and mapped with the effects they produced on learners. Furthermore, we cluster these empirical effects of gamification into six areas: performance, motivation, engagement, attitude towards gamification, collaboration, and social awareness. The findings of our systematic literature review point out that gamification and its application in online learning and in particular in Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are still a young field, lacking in empirical experiments and evidence with a tendency of using gamification mainly as external rewards. Based on these results, important considerations for the gamification design of MOOCs are drawn.

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The Effects of Gamification in Online Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review

2019

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“…Gamification has been used in software engineering education as a strategy to engage and motivate students in performing specific behaviors, such as the more frequent use of specific tools, acquiring the habit of applying specific techniques, or being more participative in the classroom (Souza, et al, 2017;Singer and Schneider, 2012). Gamification has also been used as a strategy to induce learners to use specific software engineering abilities or practices, by promoting competition or systematically rewarding learners as they perform expected actions or show expected behaviors (Laskowski, 2015).…”

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Playing the Project: Incorporating Gamification into Project-based Approaches for Software Engineering Education

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Figueiredo³

2019

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In Software Engineering higher education, besides learning theory and acquiring technical skills, students need to develop the ability to apply, evolve, and practice those skills throughout their lifetime. From 2016 to 2018, we had been adapting an introductory Software Engineering course from a theory-oriented course to a more practical experience for students. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to describe our experience incorporating Project-based Learning (PBL) principles and gamification elements in practical assignments for SE education. To achieve this goal, we present the structure of PBL projects we have been using and how we adapted game elements to the context of SE education in order to create a gamified course. Based on our experience, we defined 17 guidelines that instructors may follow when defining a practical assignment for SE education. While PBL was helpful to create a practice-oriented teaching experience, gamification was not only useful in improving the engagement of students, but also in creating a roadmap of activities and a structure for students to self-assess their progress in the project.

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“…The results indicate that the use of gamification design elements for learning a design pattern can be effective and can increase learning motivation. Similar studies for Software Engineering were developed by Ivanova and Souza et al [15,21] using badges, leaderboards, and games. The applied surveys indicated that the students received the gamification elements positively.…”

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A gamification strategy in engineering education—A case study on motivation and engagement

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Dominguez

Velázquez

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Classical teaching-learning methods have been widely used in higher education. However, current teaching and evaluation methodologies are incorporating dynamic techniques that allow greater student participation in the learning process. It is essential that the classic model of education adapts to the changes in society and uses proper tools to encourage motivation in the education process. Gamification approaches generate motivation in the students and can lead to enhance the learning processes and outcomes. These strategies offer an alternative that is being used increasingly in higher education. Therefore, in this study, we developed a gamification strategy to generate motivation and engagement in engineering students. The strategy is applied in different courses and both in traditional and remote modalities. The validation of the proposal was carried out through a diagnostic tool in the form of a survey applied to the students of the courses where the gamified strategies were implemented. From these results we concluded that the gamified strategy helped to increase the motivation and engagement of the students, generating greater participation in the academic activities.

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Gamification in Software Engineering Education: An Empirical Study

Cited by 36 publications

References 14 publications

The Effects of Gamification in Online Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review

The Effects of Gamification in Online Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review

Playing the Project: Incorporating Gamification into Project-based Approaches for Software Engineering Education

A gamification strategy in engineering education—A case study on motivation and engagement

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