A Framework for Mobile Meaningful Plant Learning to Improve Natural Science Learners’ Performance

Plant study is an essential part of the science curriculum; however, many students do not obtain a practical familiarity with plants even though they have engaged in a botany course in school. This study aims to develop a mobile, meaningful plant learning framework to improve students’ botanical learning skills. The content validity process, as a method to help validate the proposed framework, is used in this work. Five educational technology specialists with expertise in the study and development of mobile learning and meaningful learning were invited to check and review the criteria for the developed framework, thus increasing the validity of the framework. As all five specialists rated “Agree” or “Strongly Agree” on all the usability framework criteria in the survey, the overall content validity index is 1.00, which means that all the experts agreed with the framework's presentation, task support, and customization. This study will provide valuable insights for researchers, instructors, and instructional designers interested in developing mobile learning and natural science skills.