Effects of a neurobic gym on the academic performance of university students in virtual environments

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of a neurobic gym on the academic performance of university students in virtual environments of the Research Seminar course of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Continental University, in the academic cycle II-2021. Therefore, it is developed under a quantitative paradigm with experimental typology. The sample is made up of 80 students of the Research Seminar course. Taking into account the arithmetic means achieved in the pre-test of 12.39 and in the post-test of 15.84, it is observed a revealing increase of 3.45 points in the means of the students of the group with experimental treatment of the referred course, after having developed the treatment with the neurobic gym as experimental procedure of the study. Reaffirming the specific hypothesis: The academic performance of the students of the experimental group increases after the application of the treatment with the neurobic gym according to the pre-test and post-test scores. In addition, the derivations of the student’s t statistic of related samples with significance margin < 0.05 corroborate the research hypothesis (HI). Therefore, it is concluded that the implementation of the neurobic gym in the class sessions optimizes the academic performance of the students of the course University Research Seminar in virtual environments.