Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject

Programming is an important basic skill for computer science students. However, most students found it is hard to learn and score a good mark. In an era of rapidly changing technologies, mobile learning has received increasing emphasis and widely used among educational practitioners and researchers....

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Main Authors: Nurul Farahah, Abdul Halim, Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean
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description Programming is an important basic skill for computer science students. However, most students found it is hard to learn and score a good mark. In an era of rapidly changing technologies, mobile learning has received increasing emphasis and widely used among educational practitioners and researchers. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate the factors that affect students learning performance and evaluate the effectiveness of mobile learning using Learn C application in Programming subject. Prior to the factors that affect students learning performance, a survey was conducted with 88 first year undergraduate students from Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering. Next, a pre-experimental one group pretest-posttest research design was employed with 17 students as respondents to examine the impact of mobile learning application. The collected data was then analysed using thematic analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that there are several factors that affect students learning performance in programming that is, misunderstanding, lack of practices, poor logical thinking and problem solving, no prior knowledge, psychological disorder, less interest, ineffective teaching method and bad attitude. The paired sample t-test of student’s pre-test and post-test scores demonstrate that there were no significant differences before and after the treatment through mobile learning application given. The study has gone some way towards enhancing our understanding of factors that affect student in programming learning which could be used to facilitate the development of the students programming abilities.
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spelling ump-277242020-06-17T08:00:31Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27724/ Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject Nurul Farahah, Abdul Halim Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean QA76 Computer software Programming is an important basic skill for computer science students. However, most students found it is hard to learn and score a good mark. In an era of rapidly changing technologies, mobile learning has received increasing emphasis and widely used among educational practitioners and researchers. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate the factors that affect students learning performance and evaluate the effectiveness of mobile learning using Learn C application in Programming subject. Prior to the factors that affect students learning performance, a survey was conducted with 88 first year undergraduate students from Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering. Next, a pre-experimental one group pretest-posttest research design was employed with 17 students as respondents to examine the impact of mobile learning application. The collected data was then analysed using thematic analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that there are several factors that affect students learning performance in programming that is, misunderstanding, lack of practices, poor logical thinking and problem solving, no prior knowledge, psychological disorder, less interest, ineffective teaching method and bad attitude. The paired sample t-test of student’s pre-test and post-test scores demonstrate that there were no significant differences before and after the treatment through mobile learning application given. The study has gone some way towards enhancing our understanding of factors that affect student in programming learning which could be used to facilitate the development of the students programming abilities. IOP Publishing Ltd 2020-02 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27724/1/69.%20Mobile%20learning%20application%20impact%20towards%20student%20performance.pdf pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27724/2/69.1%20Mobile%20learning%20application%20impact%20towards%20student%20performance.pdf Nurul Farahah, Abdul Halim and Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean (2020) Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject. In: 6th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems (ICSECS) , 25 - 27 Sep. 2019 , Vistana Hotel, Kuantan, Pahang. pp. 1-9., 769. ISSN 1757-8981 (Print); 1757-899X (Online) (Published) https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/769/1/012056
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Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
title Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
title_full Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
title_fullStr Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
title_full_unstemmed Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
title_short Mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
title_sort mobile learning application impact towards student performance in programming subject
topic QA76 Computer software
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27724/1/69.%20Mobile%20learning%20application%20impact%20towards%20student%20performance.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27724/2/69.1%20Mobile%20learning%20application%20impact%20towards%20student%20performance.pdf