Findings of an Experiment: Knowledge Retention in Gamified and Non-Gamified Workshops

dc.contributor.authorPutz, Lisa-Maria
dc.contributor.authorTreiblmaier, Horst
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-02T23:53:02Z
dc.date.available2019-01-02T23:53:02Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractApathetic and poorly motivated students require educators to redesign their educational measures in order to create inspiring learning environments. One such educational measure is gamification, a new tool for active learning to improve students’ motivation, with the ultimate goal of increasing knowledge retention. In this paper we investigate the effects of gamification on short- and long-term knowledge gains. Moreover, the moderating effects of gender and school type are scrutinized. We conducted a longitudinal study with 384 students using three assessments at different times and compared the results from gamified and non-gamified workshops. Our findings indicate that gamification is an effective tool to increase students’ knowledge retention in the short term, but not necessarily in the long term. There was no significant effect of gender, but we found some preliminary evidence that school type might have a moderating effect on knowledge retention.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.177
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/59586
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectGamification
dc.subjectDecision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science
dc.subjectgamified workshops, knowledge retention, gamification, moderating effects
dc.titleFindings of an Experiment: Knowledge Retention in Gamified and Non-Gamified Workshops
dc.typeConference Paper
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