The Effects of the Multimedia Interactive Module of Making Clothes (MIMC) on Students’ Understanding of the Concepts of Making Clothes in the Home Science Subject

Abstract

The Multimedia Interactive Module of Making Clothes (MIMC) is developed for the teachers to learn and facilitate (LFc) the teaching of the Making Clothes topic in the Home Science (HS) subject in the Malaysian schools. The purpose of this study is to test the effects of using the MIMC on students’ understanding of the basic concepts of making clothes. This is a quantitative study employing the quasi-experimental method of pre- and post-test. The study used cluster sampling to select 73 Form Four HS students who were then divided into the treatment and control groups. A total of 37 students of the treatment group were taught the topic of Making Clothes using the MIMC while 36 students of the control group were taught using the conventional method. The data were analyzed using the SPANOVA test. The findings show that the use of MIMC has a significant impact on the students’ understanding with p <0.05. The implications of this study are that the use of MIMC effectively increases the students’ understanding as well as the mastery of the difficult and abstract making-clothes concepts. In conclusion, multimedia-based teaching and learning yield better outcomes than those of the conventional method. Keywords: Multimedia Interactive Module, Making Clothes, Home Science, Understanding.