Gamification Effects on Teacher Curriculum Concepts from Solomon Four-Group Experiment

122 pre-service teachers participated in a Solomon four-group experiment comparing gamification-supported teaching to traditional methods. Data includes questionnaire responses on curriculum elements and student journals, collected by Funda Uysal and published in 2026. The study found large effect sizes for content (d=1.59) and total score (d=2.04) from the gamification intervention.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the effect of gamification on concept images of curriculum elements based on questionnaire scores.
• Comparing cognitive and affective outcomes between experimental and control groups based on the Solomon four-group design.
• Examining qualitative themes like motivation and conceptual understanding based on coded segments from student journals.
• Investigating the relationship between teaching methods and professional development goals for pre-service teachers.

Strengths

• Employs a robust Solomon four-group experimental design with 122 participants, controlling for pretest effects.
• Includes both quantitative data (effect sizes up to d=2.04) and qualitative data (142 coded segments from journals).
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, facilitating reuse and analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.
• Data is from a single faculty at a state university, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Funda Uysal via figshare.

Collection Method

Data collected via concept image questionnaires and student journals from a controlled experiment.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 17:26:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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