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Anonymized survey dataset on students’ perceived benefits of gamification in higher education Óscar González-López (18437439) Higher education Educational psychology gamification gameful learning higher education educational technology student readiness gameful design academic engagement Hexad survey data anonymized dataset <p dir="ltr">This dataset contains privacy-preserving anonymized survey data supporting research on students’ perceived motivational and participatory benefits of gamification in higher education.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">The dataset contains 864 adult records collected from students enrolled in business and related double-degree programmes at a public university in Spain between March 2020 and April 2026. It includes measures of perceived benefits of gamification, gameful design preferences, beliefs about the skill-development value of games, gaming habits, perceived anxiety, demographic and academic characteristics, and the variables used in the reported statistical analyses.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Direct identifiers, exact response dates, degree titles, open-text responses, collection year, and raw quasi-identifiers have been removed. Rows were shuffled, new public case identifiers were assigned, and age was top-coded at 30 to reduce re-identification risk. One response from a participant younger than 18 was excluded before analysis because the available documentation did not establish a separate parental-consent procedure.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">The relevant institutional Bioethics and Biosafety Committee issued a favourable report for the project on 12 May 2025 (registration no. 163/2025). Responses collected before that date were obtained voluntarily and with informed consent, but no committee report was available for the earlier data collection.</p> 2026-09-16T13:39:54Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.32594409.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Anonymized_dataset_for_Gameful_Learning_Readiness_in_Higher_Education_Design_Preferences_Skill-Development_Beliefs_and_Expected_Benefits/32594409 CC BY 4.0