The Effect of Visual of a courseware towards pre-university students' learning in literature

• Main Authors: Masri, Mazyrah, Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatimah, Md Nordin, Shahrina, Sulaiman, Suziah
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2009
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/1735/2/The_effect_of_visual_courseware.pdf; http://www.springerlink.com/content/n0q614h55938u546/; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/1735/

Abstract. This paper highlights the effect of visual of a multimedia courseware, Black Cat Courseware (BC-C), developed for learning literature at a preuniversity level in University Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). The contents of the courseware are based on a Black Cat story which is covered in an English course at the university. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the usability and effectiveness of BC-C. A total of sixty foundation students were involved in the study. Quasi-experimental design was employed, forming two groups: experimental and control groups. The experimental group had to interact with BC-C as part of the learning activities while the control group used the conventional learning methods. The results indicate that the experimental group achieved a statistically significant compared to the control group in understanding the Black Cat story. The study result also proves that the effect of visual increases the students’ performances in literature learning at a pre-university level.