Gamified robotics studies skew toward higher programming/software development skill tiers than GBL studies¶

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q3 i? The distribution of programming/software development skill levels differed significantly between GBL and gamified studies, with gamified approaches skewing toward higher tiers. → Syed Tanzim Mubarrat 2026

Evidence¶

Syed Tanzim Mubarrat 2026¶

Syed Tanzim Mubarrat, Byung-Cheol Min, Tianyu Shao, E. Cho Smith, Bedrich Benes, Alejandra J. Magana, Christos Mousas, and Dominic Kao. (2026). Game-Based and Gamified Robotics Education: A Comparative Systematic Review and Design Guidelines. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791338

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2

Global χ² and ordinal logistic trend test over skill tiers (none/basic/intermediate/advanced) across the 95 studies, reported in Results §4.1.3; GBL reported 63.93% basic versus 35.29% for gamified.

"The distribution of programming/software development skill levels differed significantly between GBL and gamified studies (𝜒 2(2)= 10.47, 𝑝=. 015, Cramer’s 𝑉= 0.28), with gamified approaches skewing toward higher tiers (logistic trend 𝛽= 0.57, 𝑝=.049)."

Discussion¶

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