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Albuquerque, Josmario; Bittencourt, Ig I.; Coelho, Jorge A. P. M. and Silva, Alan P.
(2017).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2017.08.005
Abstract
Gamification has been used by many researchers and practitioners in online education to increase students' motivation and engagement. However, studies showed that gamification elements also caused negative effects on learning. Moreover, recent investigations reported stereotype threat by gender had impacted students performance, in particular, the use of a male-dominant leaderboard affected women math performance. In this sense, we attained to conduct a hypothetical study to investigate whether gender stereotype threat in online gamified educational scenarios influences anxiety and performance. We conducted a three-stage survey where participants were asked indirectly about their anxiety, then they were redirected to a hypothetical online gamified system to solve a logic quiz. Afterward, their anxiety was assessed one more time in order to find out how much it had changed. We found evidence indicating the male-stereotyped environment affected participants’ anxiety.
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- Item ORO ID
- 80025
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0360-1315
- Keywords
- Gender studies; Anxiety; Stereotype threat; Gamification in education
- Academic Unit or School
- Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Depositing User
- Josmário Albuquerque Silva