02378nam a22002057a 4500 20240530120400.0 240530b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0021-9584 Hill, Alison M. A Murder Mystery Gamification Session to Consolidate Analytical Biochemical Techniques Learning (Journal Article) Washington DC :American Chemical Society ,2023 4514–4524p. Journal of Chemical Education Volume 100, 2023 - Issue 11, November 2023 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: Gamification has a strong track record of improving student engagement and learning in the chemical sciences. Meta-analyses of different approaches to gamification have highlighted that providing a game fiction, encouraging students to work in teams, and breaking games into smaller “quests” are particularly effective. Here, we aimed to increase students’ engagement and learning with four analytical biochemistry techniques (high-performance liquid chromatography, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Western blot, and mass spectrometry) by creating a game that required them to use every method to solve a “murder mystery”. Our game was based on the popular games “Mafia” and “Among Us” and introduced an original game fiction relevant to our setting. Students attending the formative gamified session gave highly positive feedback. They indicated that they enjoyed the session and increased confidence in the methods involved. Free text comments praised many of the elements deliberately introduced into the game. To our surprise, the main criticism was that the session was not challenging enough. We developed a revised session that required students to undertake more detailed data interpretation, which students reported gave the expected increase in difficulty. All materials and code for running our session and generating new mysteries with original data are available online. Gamification| Second-Year Undergraduate| Upper-Division Undergraduate| Biochemistry\ Multimedia-Based Learning| Bioanalytical Chemistry| Student Engagement| Humor/Puzzles/Games| Problem Solving Harmer, Nicholas J. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00279 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2024-05-30 0 2024-05-30 12:04:25 2024-05-30 PER 45972 45971