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Flow Scale

(Jackson & Eklund, 2002, 2004) 9 items selected; 5-point scale--Flow

Sample Questions from Time 1 Questionnaire

When participating in the teaching and learning activity of any previous course:

• Challenge-Skill Balance (item 10) (.77). My abilities matched the high challenge of the situation. (2.1. item 1)

• Merging of Action and Awareness (item 20) (.83). I performed automatically, without thinking too much. (2.1. item 4)

• Clear Goals (item 12) (.74). I had a strong sense of what I wanted to do. (2.1. item 2)

Sample Questions from Time 2 Questionnaire

During the gamification of teaching and learning activity in this course… [experimental group]

During the group-based teaching and learning activity in this course… [control group]

• Loss of Self-Consciousness (item 34) (.80). I was not worried about what others may have been thinking of me. (2.1. item 8)

• Transformation of Time (item 17) (.74). The way time passed seemed to be different from normal. (2.1. item 3)

• Autotelic Experience (item 36) (.77). I found the experience extremely rewarding. (2.1. item 9)

References

Jackson, S.A., & Eklund, R.C. (2002). Assessing flow in physical activity: The Flow State Scale-2 (FSS-2) and Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2). Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 24, 133–150.

Jackson, S.A., & Eklund, R.C. (2004). The flow scales manual. Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.