Structured Chemical Safety Multimedia Courseware For Secondary Schools Chemistry Teachers
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Date
2014-09
Authors
Narayanasamy, Prabadevi
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Interactive multimedia courseware is one of the modalities that being implemented in
self-teaching with attentive features which make adult learning interesting and
effectives. The study aims is to establish interactive multimedia courseware that
empowers national secondary schools chemistry teachers with adequate knowledge
for safe conduct of chemistry practical’s by students. In achieving the aim, three
specifics objectives were identified, i.e. (1) to profile chemistry teacher’s
background, (2) to gauge chemistry teachers’ knowledge of chemical safety and
knowledge of facility for handling hazardous chemical and (3) to develop an
interactive multimedia courseware for chemical safety education for chemistry
teachers (MyChemiSOS) up to alpha version. The ADDIE model was adapted in
developing the MyChemiSOS prototype. Chemistry teachers’ knowledge in chemical
safety at laboratory was gauged to be very poor (61%) and poor (26%) among the 46
chemistry teachers from the 44 secondary schools in Kedah that participated in the
study with informed consent. The MyChemiSOS was evaluated by double-experts
and users, whereby the overall usability scores were 5.67±0.48 and 4.13±0.35
respectively, which indicate agreement of the double-experts and the users that the
courseware was satisfying for the intended purpose of chemical safety education
among chemistry teachers.
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Structured chemical safety multimedia courseware , for secondary schools chemistry teachers