Gamification for the teaching of physical education: systematic review

Abstract

Gamification is a learning technique that transfers the mechanics of games to the non-game environment, the most benefited has been education, with the intention of achieving a more meaningful learning in students, for that reason the objective of this work is to conduct a systematic review of the studies that have implemented gamification in Physical Education classes through the PRISMA statement method. The search for information was conducted in databases such as: Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo and Google Scholar, and the search period covered the years 2018 to 2023. A total sample of 26 research papers was obtained through the use of keywords in Spanish and English language as "Gamificación / Gamification", "Educación Física / Physical Education" and "Educación / Education", and Boolean operators such as "and / and" and the concatenation operator "+ / or" were used. Among the main results it could be found that implementing gamification in Physical Education classes makes them more attractive and motivating, encouraging collaborative work, allowing students to acquire and deepen knowledge outside and inside the classroom, which in turn contributes to their academic development.