The Effect of the Use of Interactive Multimedia towards Form Two Technical Living Skills Students

Abstract

This study seeks to identify the effect of the use of the interactive multimedia in learning and facilitation towards the form 2 students in technical Living Skills subject in the district of Kubang pasu, Kedah. The study adopts the purposive sampling to select the study sample. The study sample comprises of four groups of interactive (80 people) and four conventional groups (80 people). This study adopts the mixed method to gather the data. For the quantitative method, the questionnaire forms were distributed to160 persons as the sample. Meanwhile for the qualitative method, the interview method is used to six samples. Data were analysed to get the findings using the software named “ Statistical Package of the Social Sciences (SPSS)”. An analysis was done using the descriptive statistics method in the context of the study variable which is based on the demography of race, gender and computer ownership. The inferential statistics involve the t-test, MANOVA test and Pearson Correlation test. The study findings show that there is a significant difference towards the level of knowledge, motivation and interaction between the treatment and the control group. Other than that, there is a significant impact between the groups towards the variables of multimedia knowledge and interaction. Last but not least, there is a significant relationship between knowledge and motivation, knowledge and interaction and interaction and motivation. There are two themes yielded from the interview analysis which are the reasons behind students being more interested in learning if teacher uses interactive multimedia materials during the learning and facilitation process. The second theme is the impact if teacher uses the interactive multimedia materials during the process of learning and facilitation. The conclusion from the study demonstrates that the use of interactive multimedia materials in learning and facilitation towards Form Two students studying Technical Living Skills has brought an impact to their knowledge, motivation and interaction. The study implication shows that the use of interactive multimedia materials in learning and facilitation of the students has increased their learning and facilitation.