La gamificación como estrategia para mejorar la transferencia teoría-práctica y el desarrollo de competencias profesionales en estudiantes de Fisioterapia.

Abstract

Abstract: The work titled, gamification as a strategy to improve the practical theory transfer and the development of professional skills in Physiotherapy students, had The objective is to determine the contribution of gamification in the theory-practice transfer in the development of professional skills in Physiotherapy students, through the comparison of a control group and an experimental group. 52 participated in the study third cycle students from the Private Technical University of Loja (UTPL). The students were randomly assigned, an experimental group that received a training using gamification, and a control group that received training using traditional methods. Both programs lasted 16 weeks. To evaluate, the Physiotherapy competency matrix was applied, which included sections theoretical and practical. The results of the questionnaire showed that the students of the experimental group achieved significantly higher scores than their peers in the control group, showing that the use of gamification as a teaching strategy in the Physiotherapy career can be more effective than traditional methodologies as far as the theoretical-practical transfer is concerned.