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Record W4415172240 · doi:10.1080/14647893.2025.2570912

Thinking outside the box: a systematic review of gamification trends in children’s dance education

2025· review· en· W4415172240 on OpenAlex
Weishan Liu, L. Chen, Wenwen Liu, Xiaojiao Chen, Chengliang Wang

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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch in Dance Education · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEducational Games and Gamification
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDance educationDanceTeaching methodCritical thinkingHigher educationPhysical education

Abstract

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Since the 21st century, gamification technology has been widely applied across various research domains. In the field of children’s dance, it has exerted significant influences on learning, software development, and therapy. However, a comprehensive review of its application in children’s dance is lacking. This study conducted a systematic literature review selecting 31 relevant articles, aiming to reveal the trends and directions of gamification technology in the domain of children’s dance. The findings indicate: 1) The United States is the most active in children’s dance gaming, followed closely by the United Kingdom and Canada. Academic contributions are primarily published in academic journals in the fields of medicine, sports science, and education. 2) The research mainly revolves around interactive dance games, physical dance games, therapeutic interventions, software development, and teaching methods. 3) Utilizing grounded theory, it explores its core strengths and research limitations. 4) Through in-depth analysis of existing literature, future research focuses and directions are proposed. This aids in promoting the development of more comprehensive, effective, and professional teaching practices and tools.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.462
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.006
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.522
Teacher spread0.415 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it