Development of computer assisted instruction on nuclear physics

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to construct and evaluate the efficiency of the Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) on Nuclear Physics class to have 80:80 effectiveness standards. 2) to compare learning achievement between pre-test and post-test scores after using the CAI, 3) to study student’s opinion about CAI. Samples were the second year of Science and Technology students of the Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi in 2011 academic year selected by simple random sampling. The first test was done by one-to-one evaluation and the second one by a small group in order to revise the CAI before implementing within the subject. The efficiency of the CAI was evaluated by experts both in content and production technique of the courseware. The results of this research were shown : 1) the CAI on Nuclear Physics contained the effectiveness at 87.00:85.33 which was higher than the standard criterion set (80:80), 2) the comparison between pre-test and post-test was found that the post-test score of students who studies with CAI were significantly higher than the pre-test score at .05 level, and 3) the mean score of the student’s opinion about CAI was 4.35 shown that most of them satisfied the CAI on Nuclear Physics at good level.