Resumen de Game-Based Application for Helping Students Review Chemical Nomenclature in a Fun Way

Mary Anne Sousa Lima, Álvaro Carvalho Monteiro, Antonio José Melo Leite Junior, Izac Sidarta de Andrade Matos, Francisco Serra Oliveira Alexandre, Davi Janô Nobre, André Jalles Monteiro, José Nunes da Silva Júnior

• This work provides information about a free-of-charge, trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, and English), game-based application. The game allows high-school and undergraduate students to review chemical nomenclature in an engaging and fun way on their own by answering random questions from a database with over 700 questions. Student testing revealed that the game design, content, playability, and usefulness was helpful as a complementary didactic tool to aid in traditional study. Assessment of student knowledge gains was performed. The results revealed that students who used the game as a complementary tool had higher performance in tests compared with students who studied nomenclature by only conventional learning methods.