The use of android media in improving students' motivation in learning sports physiology

Abstract

Android-based applications are being used in education research. In the lectures on Sports Physiology, especially on the material of the human respiratory system, there is complex range of material accompanied by terms in Latin or scientific language that are difficult to understand. Students experience difficulties and feel bored in taking part in Sports Physiology lectures, especially in understanding the scope of the complex material about the human respiratory system with conventional learning methods. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the application of learning media in sports physiology based on android to increase student learning motivation on the material of human respiratory system. The questionnaire was used as an instrument in this research. This research uses a design of pretest-posttest control group. The subjects in this research were students of sports coaching education at Yogyakarta State University which consisted of two groups, namely the control class and experimental class. The scores obtained were then analyzed using independent sample t-test to discover the increase in students learning motivation, between the control class and the experimental class. The results of this research indicate that Android-based sports physiology learning media has provided a significant influence on improving student motivation.