The influence of gamification on the teaching assessment of human anatomy

Alberto García-Barrios, Ana Isabel Cisneros-Gimeno, Jesús Benito-Rodríguez, Jaime Whyte-Orozco, Encarcacíón Rubio-Aranda · 2026

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Alberto García-Barrios and colleagues measured, in a 2026 study, whether game-based teaching lifts grades in human anatomy, a subject whose class hours have shrunk in medical schools. They tracked students of the locomotor system course across four academic years, from 2020 to 2024.

One group learned the classic way, while another added gamification tasks, with the same content, teachers, and grading rules for both. Game-group students scored clearly better in all four years, and the gap held across sexes and cohorts. The authors argue that play elements do more than energize a room: they reliably raise results in a hard, fact-heavy subject, making them a flexible tool for health science teaching.

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CREATORAlberto García-Barrios, Ana Isabel Cisneros-Gimeno, Jesús Benito-Rodríguez, Jaime Whyte-Orozco, Encarcacíón Rubio-Aranda
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE19941
LICENSEhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13316788

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