Desarrollo de una aplicación educativa gamificada para reforzar aptitudes académicas

Abstract

This project proposes a solution to the problem given by the insufficient results obtained by the high school graduates in the university entrance exams, thus a gamified educational application is developed to improve the academic aptitudes of the high school graduates, in a fun and motivating way, through constantly practice.

It started with the use of the iPlus methodology to obtain a set of requirements and game mechanics that allowed knowing the context that aims to solve the problem and then accomplish the first mockup design of the application. Mockups were refined through an iterative process and then evaluated through various heuristics to ensure good usability.

Later, during the development of the application, the Scrum agile framework was used and with which the planning, execution, review, and feedback of the development was carried out through an iterative process of delivering increments that allowed the complete construction of the application.

Finally, functionality tests were carried out using test cases to validate the functional requirements of the application and usability evaluations with final users through questionnaires to determine satisfaction in usability and the perceived utility of the application.