The Effectiveness of an Interactive Multimedia Courseware with Cooperative Mastery Approach in Enhancing Higher Order Thinking Skills in Learning Cellular Respiration

摘要

The main objective of this study is to integrate mastery and cooperative learning approaches together with an interactive multimedia to enhance students’ high order thinking skills in the learning of Cellular Respiration. A multimedia interactive courseware was developed and applied in three different strategies, namely the Multimedia-assisted Mastery Learning (MML), Multimedia-assisted Cooperative Learning (MCL) and Multimedia-assisted Cooperative Mastery Learning (MCML). The MML used a self-learning approach while MCL and MCML involve learning in groups. This study involved a quasi-experimental design whereby the domain scores of analysing, evaluating and synthesizing were the three dependent variables. The independent variable was the interactive multimedia courseware with the three approaches. Eighty-four, 88 and 90 pre-university students went through the MML, MCL, and MCML respectively. The MANCOVA was applied to analyse the performance scores of each of the three higher order thinking skills based on the three approaches with the implemented courseware. The result revealed that the MML and MCML students performed significantly better in the creating domain score compared to MCL. Overall, the findings of this study suggest that the multimedia interactive courseware with the combination of mastery and cooperative learning approaches brings a positive effect in the learning of Cellular Respiration.