The effect of using ARV-based BILE at elementary school to enhance students’ environmental understanding

Understanding the environment is an important aspect among elementary school students that should be developed through effective learning using appropriate media, such as the Augmented Reality (AR) that integrates video and information. This study examined the effect of using augmented reality on students' environmental understanding and their improvement on conceptual comprehension. In this quasi-experimental study, a one-group pretest-posttest framework was employed to assess the level of students’ understanding. Student’s conceptual understanding was measured by science subject test with the topic was ‘living environment’. The data of this study were analyzed using Paired Sample T-Test, which results indicated a significant increase in students' conceptual understanding about environmental topics taught by implementing augmented reality. The direct visualization experiences provided in the media allowed elementary school students to enhance their understanding of real-world environmental conditions and awareness of both the impacts and potentials about their surrounding environment.