THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MULTIMEDIA TEACHING MATERIALS ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SJK (C) STUDENTS IN SCIENCE SUBJECT

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of using multimedia teaching materials on student achievement in the Science subject. The study employed a quasi-experimental method involving 60 Year 5 students from a Chinese National-Type School, with purposive sampling used. The research instruments included pre-tests, post-tests, multimedia teaching materials, and a questionnaire, where the reliability value of the questionnaire was high at 0.95. The control group used conventional teaching methods, while the experimental group used multimedia materials during the treatment and answered the questionnaire after the treatment. The data collected from the questionnaires were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The research questions were tested through inferential statistics, including the Paired Sample t-Test and Independent Sample t-Test. The findings of the study revealed a significant difference in the experimental group between the two tests, with an increase in the mean score of 9.66. Additionally, there was a significant difference in the post-test between the two groups, with the mean score of the experimental group being higher than that of the control group after the treatment. This suggests that the teaching method using multimedia materials is more effective than the conventional method.