Techniques of analysis of pedagogical methods

a case study

Abstract

The specialized literature reports little research on the application of Theory of Interactions on the adaptation of social dimensions to attributes retrieved from a Learning Management System database, for further analysis of pedagogical methods. Therefore, it was decided to make an analytical and inferential study that evaluates the whole dynamics of the process, in order to make a comparative analysis between two groups of students of an e-learning class (being applied to gamification in one of the two groups), through a bibliographical and field research, in a period of one year, using the adapted attributes of the social dimensions. The sample consisted of 87 individuals, 38 of the control group and 49 of the work group. In the present research it was verified that the average age of the students is of 35 years and that the amount of men and women for the two groups is equivalent. Samples were considered homogeneous from the U Mann-Whitney test and there was an increase in interactions in the three dimensions, which can be explained by the playfulness of the pedagogical method of gamification. Statistical significance analysis revealed that the application of gamification influenced the differ-ence between groups.