The Effect of Augmented Reality on Biology Students Attitude Lyka D. Lamoste (a*), John Oliver P. Distor (b), Catherine Genevieve B. Lagunzad (c)
a) Department of Science, College of Education, Rizal Technological University, Mandaluyong, Philippines
*ldlamoste[at]rtu.edu.ph
b) Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Rizal Technological University
c) Biology Department, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
Abstract
One of the most powerful forms of contextual mobile learning is Augmented Reality (AR). AR learning has increasingly finding its place in the field of education with its potentials to improve students^ learning performance and attitude. It offers opportunities to expand the borders of the classroom to create new dimensions in mobile learning and to increase the students^ connection to the real world and to the concepts being learned. While AR has been used in other countries, the documented use in the Philippines is scarce. With these in mind, the study aims to determine the effect of AR application in the Biology attitude of Grade 8 junior high school students, specifically in the topic on biodiversity. An attitudinal survey instrument, which consists of 31 Likert-scale statements, was adopted to measure the students^ attitude towards biology education before and after the intervention. Two groups were classified into non-AR and AR learning groups, each with 32 students. Both groups received the same classroom instructions except that the AR group used AR applications through their mobile devices. Results showed an improvement in their Biology attitude^s post-attitudinal scores for both traditional and AR learning group however, normalized gain score analysis revealed that AR learning group (mean = 0.6137, SD = 0.09754) had a statistically significant higher post-attitudinal scores than the traditional learning group (mean = 0.4625, SD = 0.08883) with a p-value of less than 0.001 at 0.05 level of significance.
Keywords: Augmented Reality- AR- biodiversity- attitude- mobile devices
