Affiliation:
1. Department of Biosciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
2. Department of Basic Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
3. Department of Biological Sciences and Health, Biotechnology and Medicine, University of Araraquara, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract
This work describes the educational game “Integrating Synapse, Muscle Contraction, and Autonomic Nervous System,” which was developed to assist students in understanding and integrating concepts related to the physiology of synapses, muscle contraction, and the autonomic nervous system. Analysis was made of the effect of the game on learning and the students’ opinions about it. Dentistry students were divided into control and game groups. They attended lectures about the topics, after which the control group students were submitted to a test, whereas the game group performed the game activity before undertaking the test. The mean score was significantly higher for the game group, compared with the control group ( P < 0.05). Pharmacy students also attended lectures about these topics; in the next class, the students performed a pretest and the activity with the educational game. After the game, a posttest was applied. The mean scores were significantly higher for the posttest than for the pretest ( P < 0.05). Students of medicine attended the lectures and performed the activity with the educational game, without the learning assessment. All of the students answered a question, using a 5-point Likert-type scale, concerning whether they thought the activity with the game was useful for learning. The mean scores obtained by the dentistry, pharmacy, and medicine students were 4.7 ± 0.6, 4.9 ± 0.3, and 4.3 ± 0.1, respectively. The educational game increased the learning of the undergraduate students, in agreement with their opinions of the strategy.
Funder
São Paulo Research Foundation
CAPES
American Physiological Society
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
General Medicine,Physiology,Education
Cited by
11 articles.
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