Research Trends on Digital Games and Gamification in Nursing Education

MEŞE, Sevinç; Meşe, Can

doi:10.18009/jcer.1175412

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“…On the other hand, we can say that educational digital games are effective in increasing student achievement (Aksoy, 2014;Şahin, 2016;Yavuzkan, 2019) or a useful method in developing positive emotions (Aslan-Akın & Atıcı, 2015;Avcu, 2023;Kara, 2021;Meşe & Meşe, 2022;Yıldız-Durak, 2019). Similarly, the studies of Ağırgöl, Kara & Dönel-Akgül, (2022) with Yıldız and Zengin (2021) were encountered.…”

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The Effect of Actionbound Application on Academic Success and Attitude on 6th Grade Field Measurement

KORKMAZ

2023

International E-Journal of Educational Studies

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This study aims to examine the effects of activities prepared using the Actionbound application on students' academic achievement and mathematical attitude in the field measurement subject in the 6th-grade mathematics course. The study was designed using a quasi-experimental design with a control group from quantitative research methods. The study group of research consists of students studying in two different 6th grades of a secondary school in the central district of Elazığ province in the school year 2022-2023. The achievement averages of the branches in the previous semester were used in forming the experimental and control groups and in ensuring the equivalence of the branches. The research, which was conducted in parallel with the MoNE curriculum, was applied simultaneously to the experimental and control groups. The research, which used parametric testing procedures due to the normal distribution of the data, was analyzed using the SPSS package program. The results show that the digital learning game developed using Actionbound improves performance and attitude, but does not cause a significant difference between the groups. It is recommended to extend the application period of the study and continue the study for one semester.

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The Effect of Actionbound Application on Academic Success and Attitude on 6th Grade Field Measurement

KORKMAZ

2023

International E-Journal of Educational Studies

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“…Nursing education has transformed in recent years with the introduction of active learning strategies to stimulate the interest of the learner, by increasing motivation, developing critical thinking, improving problem-solving skills, and encouraging class engagement among students. 1 Gamification has been introduced as the newest and innovative educational teaching method in the modern era based on the understanding that contemporary students need some teaching strategies beyond PowerPoint supplements and more reading in the classroom to support their learning https://doi.org/10.18231/j.jeths.2023.014 2454-4396/© 2023 Author(s), Published by Innovative Publication. 57…”

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“…process. 1,2 There are a lot of concepts and mechanisms that are difficult to understand by students in the medical field, especially nursing, and learning those complicated concepts in the curriculum can easily bring boredom and create a loss of interest for the students in the classroom. 2 Gamification helps to blend and balance the game elements with the concepts in a non-game environment, to achieve realism, better listening by class engagement and stimulation, and to promote better learning outcomes by making meaningful connections to the more complex nursing concepts.…”

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“…10 Studies have suggested that gamification can bring better motivation in students, and helps in dynamic participation and retention of the content learned in the classroom than the traditional teaching methods. 1,4 Since gamification is comparatively a recent technology used in nursing education, not much information is available for its application in this field to be recommended as an effective learning tool. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to identify the application of gamification as an innovative teaching-learning strategy method in the nursing curriculum, to explore student satisfaction, motivation, and class engagement while using gamification as a teaching strategy, and to identify the impact of gamification in the academic performance of nursing students.…”

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Gamification as an innovative tool in classroom teaching: Does it enhance learning outcomes and student participation in nursing?

John,

Thomas

2024

JETHS

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Gamification has been introduced in the nursing curriculum as one of the newest and most innovative teaching methods by blending the games with the concepts. In this method, they are applying the game elements in a non-game environment. Evidence cited in the empirical research shows that it increases students' class engagement, motivation, problem-solving ability, and competencies to a large extent. However, not many research studies have been conducted exploring the impact of gamification on the teaching and learning of nursing subjects. 1) Identify the application of gamification as an innovative teaching-learning strategy in nursing curriculum 2) Explore the student satisfaction, motivation, and class engagement while using gamification as a learning method 3) Impact of gamification on the academic performance of nursing students.A literature search was conducted using online databases available in Google Scholar, PubMed, Medline, Science Direct, and ProQuest. The studies included were descriptive surveys, systematic reviews, quasi-experimental, and mixed research methods. The key search concepts explored were ‘Gamification and nursing education’, ‘gamified as a learning tool in nursing education’, ‘gamification and academic outcomes of nursing students', and 'gamification as a teaching strategy in nursing education'. The available evidence from the research studies indicates positive results in using gamification can be a used as a learning strategy and shows that it can bring about increased class engagement, clarification and understanding of difficult concepts, and improve interaction and communication in nursing courses. However, challenges remain in terms of lack of clarity on the competencies to be examined the learning outcomes and the efficacy of its application in the professional field, and the underlying costs. Gamification can be introduced as an innovative technology in the teaching-learning process. Further studies are required to provide more evidence in its application to various nursing courses and the learning outcomes to be examined.

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“…Collecting data for serious game analytics has proven difficult, with pre-game, in-game, and post-game data being the most common. Digital games and gamification have proven helpful in nursing education in fostering active involvement, elevating satisfaction levels, and imparting skills [10].…”

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Optimizing Random Forest Algorithm to Classify Player's Memorisation via In-game Data

Alzuhdi,

Ar Rosyid,

Chuttur

et al. 2023

Knowl. Eng. Data Sci.

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Assessment of a player's knowledge in game education has been around for some time. Traditional evaluation in and around a gaming session may disrupt the players' immersion. This research uses an optimized Random Forest to construct a non-invasive prediction of a game education player's Memorization via in-game data. Firstly, we obtained the dataset from a 3-month survey to record in-game data of 50 players who play 4-15 game stages of the Chem Fight (a test case game). Next, we generated three variants of datasets via the preprocessing stages: resampling method (SMOTE), normalization (min-max), and a combination of resampling and normalization. Then, we trained and optimized three Random Forest (RF) classifiers to predict the player's Memorization. We chose RF because it can generalize well given the high-dimensional dataset. We used RF as the classifier, subject to optimization using its hyperparameter: n_estimators. We implemented a Grid Search Cross Validation (GSCV) method to identify the best value of n_estimators. We utilized the statistics of GSCV results to reduce the weight of n_estimators by observing the region of interest shown by the graphs of performances of the classifiers. Overall, the classifiers fitted using the BEST n_estimators (i.e., 89, 31, 89, and 196 trees) from GSCV performed well with around 80% accuracy. Moreover, we successfully identified the smaller number of n_estimators (OPTIMAL), at least halved the BEST n_estimators. All classifiers were retrained using the OPTIMAL n_estimators (37, 12, 37, and 41 trees). We found out that the performances of the classifiers were relatively steady at ~80%. This means that we successfully optimized the Random Forest in predicting a player's Memorization when playing the Chem Fight game. An automated technique presented in this paper can monitor student interactions and evaluate their abilities based on in-game data. As such, it can offer objective data about the skills used.

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Research Trends on Digital Games and Gamification in Nursing Education

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

The Effect of Actionbound Application on Academic Success and Attitude on 6th Grade Field Measurement

The Effect of Actionbound Application on Academic Success and Attitude on 6th Grade Field Measurement

Gamification as an innovative tool in classroom teaching: Does it enhance learning outcomes and student participation in nursing?

Optimizing Random Forest Algorithm to Classify Player's Memorisation via In-game Data

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