Senior high schools teachers and students' needs for the e-learning in a remedial program of mathematics

Abstract

Remedial is a program designed in line with students' need that aims to improve their understanding of a topic before the student move forward to learn the next following topic. The implementation of remedial in Indonesia, particularly in Aceh, does not meet the requirement, because most of the teachers conduct a remedial by repeating the test or giving additional assignment. This study aims to design and develop an e-learning based remedial program to improve remedial in teaching and learning upper secondary schools mathematics. This study is developmental research employing System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model. The model has five stages of development that are: planning phase, analysis phase, design phase, implementation phase and support phase. It is important to note that this paper reports results of planning phase, analysis phase, and a preliminary-part of design phase. The result from planning phase revealed problems regarding to the implementation of remedial programs in schools. In the analysis phase, the results showed that, in delivering a remedial program, most of teachers gave the same questions as they provided for examination without any extra lesson or tutorial for the students. In addition, there was no teacher who used e-learning for the remedial.