A Meta-Analysis on the Influence of Gamification in Formal Education on Affective and Behavioral Outcomes

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Abstract

Gamification research in education has produced mixed results on student affective and behavioral outcomes. This meta-analysis provides findings that integrated the empirical, quantitative research on gamification in formal educational settings by examining the overall effect size and the effect sizes of each gamification design elements respectively. The final corpus included 19 independent studies for affective outcomes with a total of N = 1974 participants, and 13 independent studies for behavioral outcomes with N = 1596 participants. The overall effect size for affective outcomes is at g = 0.574 [0.384, 0.764] and g = 0.740 [0.465, 1.014] for behavioral outcomes. We provide results on affective outcome and behavioral outcomes respectively and discuss our findings and recommendations for future research and practice.

Authors

• Rui Tammy Huang, University of Florida

• Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, University of Florida

• Max Sommer, University of Florida

• Jiawen Zhu, East China Normal University

• Anita Stephen, University of Florida

• Natercia Valle, University of Florida

• John Hampton, University of Florida

• Jingwei Li, University of Florida