Does Adaptive e-Module (Ae-M) effective in enhancing students’ numeracy literacy ability?

Abstract

Numeracy literacy is an important skill for students to master. Nevertheless, the numeracy literacy ability of students who were still low. For this reason, it is necessary to design textbooks that are suitable for students with different learning styles. Ae-M is a digital teaching material designed for students with different learning styles. Learning using Ae-M is suitable for differentiated learning strategies which are peculiarities of the independent curriculum in Indonesia. Differentiated learning views all students as having their own uniqueness in learning. Numeracy literacy ability is one of the learning objectives in the independent curriculum. The purpose of the study was to reveal whether the use of Ae-M was effective in enhancing the numeracy literacy ability of students. This type of research is development research with the Plomp model which consists of three phases, namely preliminary research, development or prototyping phase, and assessment phase. The instruments used are interview guidelines, observation sheets, checklists, questionnaires, and numeracy literacy ability tests. The results showed that Ae-M was able to facilitate students according to their learning styles and improve numeracy literacy ability. The use of video is able to facilitate visual and auditory students in learning. With activities that use digital media, kinesthetic students can do learning according to their learning style. The conclusion of this research is Ae-M was effective in enhancing the numeracy literacy ability of students.