Software educativo orientado a la gamificación para la evaluación de los estudiantes de segundo bachillerato en la asignatura de biología

Abstract

We now live in a society that is constantly updated with technological progress, which today is becoming an important pillar of the learning process. That is why the current research aims to develop an educational software that provides a better learning environment in the students of the second high school BGU parallel "A" of the school "Carmen Mora de Encalada", because this program consists of activities according to the subject of biology where it seeks to evaluate the knowledge about the contents of the educational software: digestive system, circulatory system, mitosis and meiosis, focuses primarily on developing skills that will help students increase their academic performance. It should be noted that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions were forced to shut down in their transition from personal learning to virtual learning. This forced teachers to develop new skills in the use of technologies that would allow them to incorporate innovative strategies and methods to the development of their classrooms, thus promoting the preparation of students to learn. As for students, it is necessary that they intervene in educational activities, and in addition, it is necessary to develop the skills to develop correctly in ICT because it has become a necessary instrument to obtain a quality education. Teachers of the 21st century must be prepared for recent changes that help them to face the various challenges posed by modern education, therefore, it is important that they include and use technology to help them improve their methodology in the teaching-learning process. For this reason, the main objective of the study is to develop an educational software oriented to gamification through the improvement of the evaluation process of the contents of the subject Biology for the learning of knowledge in the students of second BGU of the parallel "A" of the Carmen Mora de Encalada school, this will help to obtain more participation and a greater learning in the students. According to what was mentioned above, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used, in which the main instrument is the survey that was used for the collection of relevant data, provided by a specific sample of 30 students of the second unified general high school "A", in such a way to the teacher who teaches biology. In relation to the development of the educational software, we made use of an institutional design called ADDIE, since it guarantees an optimal development of the educational prototype, in the same way it can be used by any individual, usually teachers and students who wish to create a product and provide them with an effective result, this has 5 phases that allow to successfully meet the objectives set. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, two interventions were carried out with the purpose of executing the educational prototype and making known the benefits it has to be used in the classroom to support the subject of biology. Firstly, the intervention was carried out with the teacher in charge of the aforementioned subject, where we were able to express that it is a very good proposal since it will help in the evaluation of the contents taught in class and more than anything else it will help the students to be more participative and interact more with the teacher. Corresponding to the second intervention, students and teachers of the aforementioned subject participated, and it is worth mentioning that favorable results were achieved with respect to the educational prototype thanks to the application of the research instruments. We also mention the great help of the application of the prototype allowing students to improve their participation and achieve greater motivation when being evaluated.