Gamificação como Estratégia para Estimular a Aprendizagem dos Alunos na Escola: Uma Análise Bibliométrica

Abstract

Over the years, information and communication technologies started to be inserted in schools, and with that, gamification emerged as a way to improve the teaching and learning of students, and there are already scientific productions that deal with the application of gamification in education. Therefore, this research aims to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on gamification applied to education. Regarding the methodology, this study is classified as quantitative exploratory. A bibliometric analysis was carried out through a search in the Scopus database, and 210 publications were found between the years 2013 to 2019. The results show that the scientific productions aimed at the application of gamification in education are recent, since data were found from 2013. In addition, it was found that Spain was the country where there is a greater concentration of publications related to the subject under study. The use of the VOSviewer program identified keywords that correspond to the gamification application, showing that its use is necessary to verify if what is being analyzed involves the object of the research study. Thus, it is understood that the publications show that the studies focused on gamification, applied to education, have been growing, however these studies are recent, which shows that there is still much to understand about its application and how this methodology can improve quality teaching and learning of students in schools.