Board Games: A Tool in the Process of Microanatomy and Embryology Education and Learning

• Published in: The FASEB journal Vol. 33; no. S1; p. 604.6
• Main Authors: Teixeira, Claudio Silva, Costa, Antônio Orcini, Costa, Roberta Oliveira, Freitas, Ana Paula Fragoso, Sanders, João Victor Santos Souza, Cavalcante, Jonathan Barros, Freitas, Francisco Orlando Rafael, Cerqueira, Gilberto Santos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 01-04-2019
• DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.604.6
• EISSN: 1530-6860
• ISSN: 0892-6638

Teaching through interactive methodologies can promote revolutionary changes in the teaching‐learning processes, since the material produced can contain playful resources and other more attractive aspects that have the dynamism and the interaction with the students in the morphological sciences. Thus, games can be used for the purpose of developing self‐confidence, generating motivation, promoting playfulness and social interaction among those involved. In addition, games enable meaningful content practice, developing skills, conferring skill and competence. In this way the present research had as objective to investigate, educational games with educational resource in the process of teaching and learning of embryology and histology. Conducted through a descriptive, cross‐sectional study with a quantitative approach. The games were held at a basic education school in Brazil. 25 high school students participated in the study. With a data collection instrument, a semi‐structured questionnaire was used, applied in two different moments, pre‐test, followed by interventions of educational games and post‐test. The Mann Whitney test was used to analyze the data. The results showed a statistically significant difference in students' learning before and after the application of the educational games, observing a greater number of answers in the questions involving knowledge of embryology (p <0.05), however, in histology there was no statistically significant difference (p> 0.05). It was observed that there is no statistically significant difference between the participants' ages. It was found that educational games function as a relevant tool for acquiring knowledge of embryology.
Support or Funding Information
This study received funding of CAPES.
This is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this published in The FASEB Journal.