Enhancing Nursing Students’ Engagement and Critical Thinking in Anatomy and Physiology Through Gamified Teaching: A Non-Equivalent Quasi-Experimental Study
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| Vydáno v: | Nursing Reports vol. 15, no. 9 (2025), p. 333-345 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Alturaiki, Sommanah Mohammed | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Enhancing Nursing Students’ Engagement and Critical Thinking in Anatomy and Physiology Through Gamified Teaching: A Non-Equivalent Quasi-Experimental Study | |
| 260 | |b MDPI AG |c 2025 | ||
| 513 | |a Journal Article | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a Background: Gamification may enhance engagement and higher-order learning in health-care profession education, but evidence from undergraduate nursing programs—particularly in the Middle East—is limited. We evaluated whether integrating structured gamified activities into an anatomy and physiology course improves class engagement and knowledge-based critical thinking. Methods: In this pragmatic, nonrandomized, section-allocated quasi-experimental study at a single Saudi institution, 121 first-year female nursing students were assigned by existing cohorts to traditional instruction (control; n = 61) or instruction enhanced with gamified elements (intervention; n = 60) groups. The intervention (introduced mid-semester) comprised time-limited competitive quizzing with immediate feedback and aligned puzzle tasks. Outcomes were measured at baseline, mid-semester, and end-semester using a four-item Class Engagement Rubric (CER; scale 1–5) and a 40-item high-cognitive multiple-choice (MCQ) assessment mapped to course objectives. Analyses used paired and independent t-tests with effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals. Results: No attrition occurred. From baseline to end-semester, the intervention group had a mean CER increase of 0.59 points (95% CI, 0.42 to 0.76; p < 0.001)—approximately a 15% relative gain—and a mean MCQ increase of 0.30 points (95% CI, 0.18 to 0.42; p < 0.001), an ~8% relative gain. The control group showed no material change over the same interval. Between-group differences in change favored the intervention across CER items and for the MCQ outcome. Semester grade-point average did not differ significantly between groups (p = 0.055). Conclusions: Embedding a brief, structured gamification package within an undergraduate nursing anatomy and physiology course was associated with measurable improvements in classroom engagement and modest gains in knowledge-based critical thinking, with no detectable effect on overall semester GPA. Given the nonrandomized, single-site design, causal inference is limited. Multi-site randomized trials using validated critical-thinking instruments are warranted to confirm effectiveness and define dose, durability, and generalizability. | |
| 653 | |a Problem solving | ||
| 653 | |a Enrollments | ||
| 653 | |a Physiology | ||
| 653 | |a Teaching | ||
| 653 | |a Students | ||
| 653 | |a Nursing education | ||
| 653 | |a Educational objectives | ||
| 653 | |a Academic achievement | ||
| 653 | |a Intervention | ||
| 653 | |a Quasi-experimental methods | ||
| 653 | |a Sociodemographics | ||
| 653 | |a Anatomy & physiology | ||
| 653 | |a Puzzles | ||
| 653 | |a Health sciences | ||
| 653 | |a Critical thinking | ||
| 653 | |a Mechanics | ||
| 653 | |a Feedback | ||
| 653 | |a Gamification | ||
| 653 | |a Learning | ||
| 653 | |a Consent | ||
| 653 | |a Statistical analysis | ||
| 653 | |a Skills | ||
| 700 | 1 | |a Gaballah, Mastoura Khames | |
| 700 | 1 | |a El Arab Rabie Adel | |
| 773 | 0 | |t Nursing Reports |g vol. 15, no. 9 (2025), p. 333-345 | |
| 786 | 0 | |d ProQuest |t Nursing & Allied Health Database | |
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