Effectiveness of using an interactive media in teaching and learning: A case study

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of using an interactive CD in implementation of Occupational Safety and Health course in FPTV UTHM. The main objective of this study is to identify whether the teaching method using an interactive CD can increase the level of student achievement and to identify the feedback from the usage of an interactive CD. The design study is social science in the form of quasi-experiment. There are two groups of students undergoes a pre-test and posttest which were treatment group and control group. There are two instruments used in this study, two sets of objectives achievement test questions consisting of 10 multiple-choice questions and a set of questionnaire Likert scale of five points. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 21 are used to facilitate the process of analyzing the data. The result shows that the method of teaching using an interactive CD were effective and improve student achievement than traditional methods.