Abstract

LOPEZ CARRION, Vicente Amor; BLUMEN, Sheyla  and  GARCIA BERBEN, Ana Belén. “Miniteachers”: technological and gamified program to enhance the motivation on primary school children. Revista de Psicología [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.2, pp.1005-1030. ISSN 0254-9247.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/psico.202102.016.

The design of educative programs created to develop the middle school students´ skills is a recurrent subject in educative literature. The aim of this article is to find evidences that support an enrichment program oriented to improve motivation and engagement in gifted students. The sample of sixty students (10-12 years old) was taken from a Peruvian middle school. The instrument used in this study were the School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised (SAAS-R) (Siegle y McCoach, 2005) to measure motivation and a rubric revised by experts to measure engagement. Finally, the results are discussed and some improvements proposal are given.

Keywords : Talents; motivation; engagement; ICT.

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