Leveraging Gamification to Combat Knowledge Decay and Enhance Self Study Discipline in Vocational Education

This paper addresses the critical challenge of "Knowledge Decay" among vocational students ,where high classroom engagement fails to translate into long term retention due to a lack of after school study discipline.Observing the high levels of engagement and self imposed disciplinestudents exhibit toward digital gaming , this research proposes a "Mission based GamificationFramework."By restructuring academic curricula into progressive game missions with virtual rewards and time bound challenges , this model aims to transition students from passive learners toactive , self motivated achievers.