Level of Student Acceptance towards Augmented Reality Technology and it’s Relationship to Attitudes in Learning Organic Chemistry
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https://doi.org/10.37134/esss.vol5.1.4.2024Keywords:
Augmented reality, technology acceptance, STEM, organic chemistry, attitudeAbstract
This study aims to identify the level of student acceptance of Augmented Reality (AR) applications and its relationship to attitudes in learning organic chemistry. Factors of usefulness and ease of use have been selected to study their relationship with students' attitudes towards using AR. A quantitative approach with a survey method using an online questionnaire instrument was conducted on the study sample. The research instrument is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This study involved 62 respondents of sixth form students in the STEM stream. The selection of respondents is based on a simple random sampling method. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Descriptive analysis was used to identify the level of AR acceptance among students while inferential analysis was used to measure the correlation between AR acceptance factors and organic chemistry learning attitudes among students. The results of the descriptive analysis show that the level of student acceptance is high for the factors of usefulness and ease of use. Correlation analysis between usefulness and student attitude gives a correlation coefficient value of r(60) = .65, p < .001 which shows a strong positive relationship. Meanwhile, between ease of use and students' attitudes, the correlation coefficient value r(60) = .83, p < .001 shows a strong positive relationship. The implications of the study show that STEM stream students positively accept the application of AR in learning organic chemistry. Accordingly, this study recommends the use of AR as one of the technology-assisted learning strategies in learning organic chemistry, especially for sixth form organic chemistry learning.
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