STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE THROUGH GAMIFICATION: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

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One learning approach to raise student engagement in the classroom is gamification. High levels of student engagement may result in better academic competence. This research study utilized quasi-experimental, two groups pretest-posttest design. The results of the study revealed that the level of students' engagement in groups A and B before the intervention were low. For academic competence both groups got below passing marks which can be interpreted as did not meet the expectation. After the intervention was utilized, the level of students' engagement in the experimental group increased and was interpreted as very high. In terms of their academic competence, the experimental group rose from below the passing marks to satisfactory. Additionally, the results also showed that there was significant difference on the students' engagement and academic competence before and after the intervention. Based on the results of the study, the researcher recommends that there should be a thorough study to be conducted by other subject teachers and contextualize the gamification process in this study to their respective subjects to achieve the same benefit achieved by the researcher.

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