juego de gamificación para mejorar el rendimiento académico en los estudiantes de 7mo egb en la asignatura de lengua y literatura de la unidad educativa “luis amando ugarte lemus”.

Abstract

The educational institutions of the Province of El Oro face a deficit of academic performance due to the lack of interest of students in active participation, taking into account the challenges presented by the Educational Units, the use of gamification has been considered as a strategy to improve academic performance in Basic General Education, with the general objective of being able to analyze how gamification improves academic performance in 7th EGB students in the subject of Language and Literature of the Educational Unit "LUIS AMANDO UGARTE LEMUS". Regarding the reference framework, important topics such as learning strategies and methods based on gamification, implementation of new learning, use of technological tools for teaching, in addition to being able to improve traditional teaching and exercise new resources that manage to capture attention and generate active participation, achieving an improvement in the academic performance of students. Furthermore, in the present study the SCRUM methodology was used, allowing the development of the project. In turn, in the research, the mixed approach was applied for the collection of information with a descriptive scope at a theoretical level, taking a non-probabilistic sample for convenience, with a pretest and posttest method. Finally, the results obtained in experience I and II were extracted through the application of the interview and survey for their respective data analysis, showing the efficiency of the positive results obtained in the application of gamification in the teaching - learning process, it is also worth mentioning that the designed prototype has the necessary means for the implementation of new strategies, this being an easily accessible tool and capable of creating new learning spaces in the words spoken by the teacher in charge of the experience, for which a significant scope has been achieved, making known the relevance of strategies based on gamification. In conclusion, it was shown that implementing gamification through the use of the MyClassGame tool to improve the active participation and academic performance of 7th grade EGB students in the subject of Language and Literature gives good results in the achievements of the objectives set, it is evident that the use of gamification strategies positively changes the learning environment and allows students to participate in a more dynamic and meaningful way in school activities. Keywords: gamification, games, active participation, learning, strategies.