The faculty of the Unidad Educativa Particular Alborada, a private school in Cuenca, Ecuador, strive to motivate their students. Our project goal was to promote engagement for students in 5th and 6th grade through games in the classroom. We developed and implemented a pilot program of games into five classes. We identified the most valuable aspects of the games from both student and teacher perspectives. To ensure that the teachers can continue using gamification, we delivered a folder of game templates and a corresponding guidebook outlining the purpose, the rules, and the modification directions for each game. By determining the most popular game elements for each class, we also recommended which games in our portfolio would be most effective.

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Creator

• Flynn, James P.
• Chong, Gabriela A.
• Orozco, Amy F.
• Raskind, Samantha G.
• Bissonette, Jacob R.

Subject

• Learning
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 24341
• E-project-051321-122159

Keyword

• Educational games
• Game based learning
• Education
• Primary education
• Gamification
• Student engagement

Advisor

• Belz, Melissa
• Kurlanska, Courtney Brooke

Year

• 2021

Center

• Cuenca, Ecuador Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• La Unidad Educativa Particular Alborada

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education

Date created

• 2021-05-13

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-08-28