Instrument of Augmented Reality Technology Based Biology Practicum: Psychometrics Analysis

Abstract

Digital literation skills are student’s need in nowadays modern era to refine the information accurately as an education media. Supporting the digital literation is by using the proper application by applying augmented reality (AR) technology. The purpose of the research is to analyze an implementation of AR technology as an effort to improve student’s digital literation skill in Surabaya senior high schools. The method of the research is quantitative with around 500 respondents that consist of students form three non-government senior high schools in Surabaya, Indonesia. The instruments validation to measure student’s acceptance towards AR technology as a teaching media is unexplored yet. This study is to evaluate the questionnaire about AR technology towards digital literation skill. The questionnaire consists of 10 items by google form and sent by online to 500 students in Surabaya. The data is processed by statistics with data analysis using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor analysis. The whole average scores of questionnaires point that analyzed descriptively around, 60 and 2.63 with deviation standard 0.52-0.77. The scores of Pearson correlation by the whole items is around 0.08 and 0.35. The measurement of sample fairness using Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) analysis generate 0.796 (Primely). This study identified three dimensions of total variation explains 51.28% from 10 items. The whole items generate factor loading score 0.5. However there are 2 items that eliminated that is item 1 and item 2.