摘要：This work describes the educational
game “Integrating Synapse, Muscle Contraction, and Autonomic
Nervous System,” which was developed to assist students in understanding and integrating concepts related to the physiology of synapses, muscle contraction, and the autonomic nervous system. Analysis was made of the effect of the game on learning and the students’
opinions about it. Dentistry students were divided into control and
game groups. They attended lectures about the topics, after which the
control group students were submitted to a test, whereas the game
group performed the game activity before undertaking the test. The
mean score was significantly higher for the game group, compared
with the control group (P 0.05). Pharmacy students also attended
lectures about these topics; in the next class, the students performed a
pretest and the activity with the educational game. After the game, a
posttest was applied. The mean scores were significantly higher for
the posttest than for the pretest (P 0.05). Students of medicine
attended the lectures and performed the activity with the educational
game, without the learning assessment. All of the students answered
a question, using a 5-point Likert-type scale, concerning whether they
thought the activity with the game was useful for learning. The mean
scores obtained by the dentistry, pharmacy, and medicine students
were 4.7 0.6, 4.9 0.3, and 4.3 0.1, respectively. The educational game increased the learning of the undergraduate students, in
agreement with their opinions of the strategy.
