Effects of Using Mobile Application for Education with Jigsaw Technique on Collaboration in Computer Subject of Lower Secondary School Students

Abstract

The present study aimed 1) to compare the effectiveness of collaboration between pre- and post-experiment among learners who applied a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique, 2) to compare the effectiveness of post-experiment collaboration between a group of learners who learned through a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique and a group of learners who learned through jigsaw technique, and 3) to investigate learners’ satisfaction after using a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique. The participants of the study were 40 of grade 8 students studying at Saint Gabriel’s College. Research instruments for this study were lesson plans, a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique, a learners’ collaborative skills test, a behavioural observation form and a survey of learners’ satisfaction. The researcher analysed the data using mean, Standard Deviation, and t-test. The findings revealed that 1) a group of learners learning through a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique gained significantly higher postexperiment collaborative skills’ mean scores than their pre-experiment scores at the .05 level of significance, 2) a group of learners learning through a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique gained significantly higher post-experiment collaborative skills’ mean scores than those of a group using jigsaw technique at the .05 level of significance, and 3) a group of learners learning through a mobile application for education with jigsaw technique reflected their overall satisfaction at a high level.