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. 2022 Apr 12;27(7):10207–10238. doi: 10.1007/s10639-022-11048-x

Table 5.

Discipline and Participants’ levels of education in gamified educational interventions*

Citation Lesson/content/ Discipline of the intervention Participants’ levels of education
Huang et al., 2020 Social science (Psychology, Education): 10; Engineering Computing: 6; Arts and Humanities: 5, Science (Biology, Physics): 4, Math: 2; Health (Nursing and Medicine): 1, Business, nformation Systems: 1; Other: 1 Undergraduate: 13; K-12: 10; Higher education: 3; Graduate: 2; Mixed higher education: 1; Mixed higher education and K-12:1
Zainuddin et al., 2020 - Adult/Higher education: 36; Primary schools: 5; Secondary school: 5
Indriasari et al., 2020 Physical Science, Mathematics & Computer Science: 10; Engineering: 8, Education: 7, Social Sciences: 3; Business: 3; Health Professions: 2, Other majors:1, Unknown: 6 Elementary; High school; University
Subhash & Cudney, 2018 Computing: 14, Business, science: 5, Science: 4; Academic Distribution: 3, Entrepreneurship: 2, Communication: 2; Civil: 1, Language: 1, Manufacturing Engineering: 1; Mechanical Engineering: 1, Nursing:1, Pedagogy: 1, Psychology:1 Higher education
Ortiz-Rojas et al., 2017 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM): 19; Communication: 1, Financing: 1, Use of Photoshop: 1; Designing Questionnaires: 1 Higher Education: 19; High School: 2; Middle School: 2
Kim & Castelli, 2021 - College students: 10, Adults: 6, k-12: 2
Garcia et al., 2020 Mathematics, Teacher:2, Student:33, Both: 1, Unknown: 9 Higher Education: 19, Middle School:16, Both: 1, unknown :8
Kalogiannakis et al., 2021 Biology or Health: 8, Physics: 5, Chemistry: 2, Natural Sciences: 9 Higher education: 10; Secondary education: 9; Primary education: 5
Bai et al., 2020 Arts: 3, Computer & information: 9, Language: 7, Research methodology: 3, Science: 3, Health education: 2, Mathematics: 2 Undergraduate: 10; Elementary school: 9; High school: 5; Postgraduate: 3; No data reported: 2
Yıldırım & Şen, 2019 Non-technology: 30; Technology: 15; Overal: 45 Primary school: 5; Secondary school: 6; High school: 4; University: 30; Overall: 45
Dehghanzadeh et al., 2019 English, Learning vocabularies: 15, Grammar:5: Pronunciation:4 Speaking:5, Writing: 3, Listening: 4 High schools: 10; Higher education:7; Elementary schools: 4
Van Gaalen et al., 2021 Heallth, Surgery, Anatomy & physiology, Anatomy learning Attitudes towards aging, Auscultatory skills, Biology Breast imaging, Clinical reasoning, Critical care, Hypertension treatment, Internal medicine , Learning about, Learning critical thinking, Life-support training, Microbiology , Pediatric knowledge Pharmaceuticals, Physiology, Quality improvement, Radiology Resuscitation principles, Scientific writing, Urine catheterization Residents: 11, Medical students: 14 Nursing: 4, Allied health students: 1 Specialists:3, Osteopathic students:1 Pharmacy students: 1 Nursery: 3, Primary care physicians:1 Speech-Language and Hearing Science: 1, Medicine (mixed): 3, Dentistry:1
Dos Santos et al., 2020 - High/technical school:18; General education: 11; Higher education: 7; Elementary school:5; Early childhood education: 2
Ortiz et al., 2016 STEM, computer science: 25, Science/Technology: 2, Math: 1 Chemistry:1, Not specified: 1 Higher Education
Bai et al., 2019 - Undergraduate:9, Elementary school:1; High school: 1; High school + undergraduate + postgraduate: 1,Postgraduate: 1
Sailer & Homner, 2020 - School setting, Higher education setting
Ekici, 2021 STEM, information science and information and communication technologies: 12, educational sciences: 2 English learning: 2 personal and professional development: 2 College: 18; High school: 3; Primary school: 1
Manzano-León et al., 2021 Physical education, Foundations of the curriculum and physical Education, Sciences, Industrial technology, MSc in Software Engineering for the Web, Advanced quantum mechanics course Online seminar of psychology, Second language(English), Ethical education, Matter and Energy subject in Primary, Education Degree Psychology courses, Math University: 6; School: 3; High School: 3; School and high school: 2
Pinto et al., 2021 Language: English: 21; German: 3; Chinese: 2; Japanese: 1; Basque: 1; Mandarin: 1; Amazigh: 1; Danish: 1 Primary education or first stage of basic education: 9; Lower secondary or second stage of basic education: 5; Pre-primary: 2; Secondary: 2; First stage of tertiary: 2; Post-secondary non-tertiary: 1; Second stage of tertiary: 1; Participants recruited from the university community: 1; 21 years old: 1; 21 to 55 years old: 1; Students from an higher education foreign language course: 1; Do not inform: 9

* The numbers in the table refer to the number of articles with this situation in each systematic or meta-analysis(Citation)