Development and Usability of an Interactive Multimedia Kit as a Teaching Aid among Biology Trainee Teachers

Abstract

This study was conducted to develop and determine the usability of an interactive multimedia kit known as "Meio-solution". This quantitative developmental research employed the ADDIE model as an instructional design. The kit contained teachers’ notes, videos, quizzes, and educational games that can be used as a teaching aid for meiosis topic. The developed kit has been validated by experts in Biology Education while the usability has been obtained from trainee teachers of Bachelor of Education (Biology). A total of 80 respondents were involved using the simple random sampling technique. Two research instruments were used, namely the expert validation form and usability questionnaire adapted from a previous study. The data were analysed descriptively using SPSS software. The findings showed that the Content Validity Index by experts scored 1.0. The perception of the Meio-solution design scored a mean value of 3.84 (SD = 0.27), while the usability scored a mean value of 3.80 (SD = 0.29). In conclusion, this research has successfully developed a validated Meio-solution kit to be used as a teaching aid. The Meio-solution kit has the potential to help teachers improve students’ understanding and visualisation of learning meiosis.