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Empowering Positive Behaviors: A Gamification-Based Approach

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Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online (HELMeTO 2019)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1091))

Abstract

Spanish educational laws specify the percentage of a student’s grades that correspond to knowledge, skills, and behavior. In recent years, the percentage assigned to attitudes has grown due to the importance that pedagogues and psychologists place on good attitude and coexistence in learning processes. In this regard, this study explores how teachers can evaluate students’ attitudes and promote good behaviors in classrooms, as well as improve communication with families. To do that, a gamification approach was implemented in a secondary school in Spain, managing a population of 105 students and an experimental sample of 53 students. The results obtained from comparing the experimental and control groups reveal a deep importance of promoting and recognizing good behavior at school, as well as of letting students and families participate in the process.

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Notes

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    https://educa.navarra.es/familias/#/LoginFrame/Login.

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    https://racima.larioja.org/racima/.

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    https://servicios.aragon.es/sigad-didactica/.

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    Study performed in the frame of the agreement between the Preventive Psychology Unit of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Ministerio de Educación of Spain, in collaboration with regional governments from the State Observatory for the scholar coexistence.

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    http://www.mecd.gob.es/portada-mecd/.

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    http://www.anpe.es/wordpress/.

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    https://www.classdojo.com.

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    https://www.educacion.navarra.es/web/pnte/educa.

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    http://www.tecnausa.com/educacion/gestion_docente.html.

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This research is partially funded by Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), through the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED, http://ited.unir.net).

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  1. Departamento de Educación, Gobierno de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Iñigo Garbayo-Ágreda

  2. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Avda de La Paz 137, 26006, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Natalia Padilla-Zea & Daniel Burgos

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  1. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Daniel Burgos

  2. Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Marta Cimitile

  3. Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Pietro Ducange

  4. Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Como, Italy

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  5. SMARTEST Research Centre, Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Como, Italy

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  6. Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Italy

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  7. Open University in the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands

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Garbayo-Ágreda, I., Padilla-Zea, N., Burgos, D. (2019). Empowering Positive Behaviors: A Gamification-Based Approach. In: Burgos, D., et al. Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online. HELMeTO 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1091. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31284-8_5

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