Gamification is gaining popularity in education because of its positive effects on learning motivation and engagement. However, several studies have doubted the long-term sustainable effects of gamification pedagogy, arguing that it provides only short-term benefits. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to explore the sustainability of gamification effects in learning. A crossover quasi-experiment was designed to trace the change of the impact of a gamified reading tool on children’s reading over time. The results show that active participants’ reading habits, motivation, and interests increased sharply during the use of the gamification application and then decreased slightly after they ceased using the application but remained higher than before the intervention. A discussion of how to create the persistence and sustainability of the effects of gamification for learning is presented.

游戏化因其对学习动机和参与度的积极影响而在教育领域越来越受欢迎。然而，一些研究对游戏化教学法的长期可持续影响表示怀疑，认为它只提供短期效益。因此，这项工作的目的是探索游戏化效果在学习中的可持续性。设计了一个交叉准实验来追踪游戏化阅读工具对儿童阅读的影响随时间的变化。结果显示，活跃参与者的阅读习惯、动机和兴趣在使用游戏化应用程序期间急剧增加，然后在停止使用应用程序后略有下降，但仍高于干预前。讨论了如何创造游戏化学习效果的持久性和可持续性。