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Title LEARNING THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY LABORATORY APPLICATION: A USER STUDY

Author(s) GHAZALA RASHEED

Abstract Learning Through Virtual Reality Laboratory Application: A User Study In today’s digital world, smart and emerging technologies like virtual reality are now becoming a necessity in the field of education. The need is instigated by a lack of student’s interest and engagement in STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects. As a result, student’s performance is negatively affected in such subjects. Numerous studies have been conducted to evaluate virtual reality in education but have lacked participants and education level. The purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of a virtual laboratory on secondary school students' practical learning of Physics. In this case, a desktopbased virtual laboratory application was developed with four Physics laboratory experiments based on students learning parameters and virtual reality design guidelines which obtained from the literature. The main research methodology was a user study, conducted with 184 participants from 4 secondary schools. Each school consisted of experimental group (used virtual laboratory) and control group (used physical laboratory). The data was collected using a Physics quiz at the end of study from both groups. The results showed, mean score of an experimental group 7.16 was greater than control group mean 5.87. This revealed that participant’s learning using virtual laboratory was better than participants of physical laboratory. The results also revealed no significant difference in performance of boys and girls in the two groups. The usability test was completed through SUS (System Usability Scale) questionnaire which included 92 participants of experimental group in order to assess the interface of an application. The internal consistency was measured using Cronbach alpha with an achieved value of 0.76 for the questionnaire. The SUS score was calculated and found results above average with a value of 73.5. The participants who used the virtual laboratory application found it easy to use, user-friendly and helpful for learning

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Engineering

Language English

Publication Date 2022-01-04

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