Pembangunan Aplikasi Android Dalam Membantu Kanak-Kanak Prasekolah Belajar Membaca Sebagai Asas Dalam Bidang TVET

Abstract

From the perspectives of content design, interaction, and interface, this study was undertaken to design and develop an android application to help preschool children learn to read as a foundation in the field of TVET. This study uses the research design and product development (DDR) method where the researcher focuses on the development of android applications for the teaching and learning process using a quantitative approach and the ADDIE Model teaching design. The researcher employed a random sample technique to identify three academic staff members with an appropriate TVET educational background for the investigation. This academic staff is comprised of two highly skilled and experienced academics in the field of creative android and one academic in the subject of early childhood education from an affiliated educational institution. On the basis of a distributed checklist form, frequency and percentage values were used to collect and analyse data. The classification of each item into a group and the recording of frequency data as a percentage. The study found that the process of determining the functionality of this android application in assisting preschool children to learn to read in terms of content design, interaction, and interface received positive feedback from experts, who believe that this android application is effective as one of the mediums for learning self-directed reading. Each individual can utilise the findings of this study as a reference, especially for fostering the growth of TVET among preschool-aged children.