The use of Kahoot! as a tool for teaching and learning in Zoology education

• Autor(a) principal: Boechat, Lorena Temponi
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Sanches, Jane Piton Serra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Prática Docente
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.cfs.ifmt.edu.br:443/periodicos/index.php/rpd/article/view/1339
• topic: Pedagogical use of Kahoot!; Learning Zoology; Zoology Teaching; Uso pedagógico de Kahoot!; Zoología de aprendizaje; Zoologia de enseñanza; Uso pedagógico do Kathoot!; Aprendizagem de Zoologia; Ensino de Zoologia

The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the application of an online game as a learning tool and to verify its influence on the students’ performance when applied before evaluative activities. The activity involved two disciplines of the second period of a Biological Sciences course, one of them taught students how to use the game, another had its contente used and evaluated using Kahoot!. After the activity, it was possible to verify that the game brought a greater interactivity between students and teachers, allowing testing the degree of knowledge and appropriation of the content previously discussed in the classroom. The students experienced a funny and playful participation and the teachers could evaluate the most fragile points in the understanding of the content worked. In addition, it was possible to verify that the students' performance improved on average 19% in the assessments applied after the use of the game. We can conclude that the Kahoot! is a game that can be used to fix and deepen the studied content, thus becoming a valuable learning tool.