The Effect of Multimedia Technology Integration on Students’ Academic Achievement

Teaching and learning curriculum requires more effective transformation and methodology to improve the minds of students, particularly for moderate students to enable them to be ready in the technical fields. Therefore, an experiment that include pre-test and post-test with control group design has been conducted to determine the effectiveness of the integration of multimedia during teaching and learning in technical subjects. This study was conducted in a Vocational College in Johor, Malaysia which involved 30 students in experimental group and 30 students in control group. Experimental group were taught using multimedia elements while the control group was taught with the ordinary or normal teaching and learning method. The data were analysed using mean score, standard deviation and an independent T-test. The pre-test min score is 2.55 (SD=1.00) and the post-test min score is 4.35 (SD=0.75), the result indicated significant different between groups. Therefore, it can be concluded that integration of multimedia as a teaching aid increase the student's interaction and promotes the mastery learning among them. A multimedia-based learning seems able to create an exciting and effective impact in teaching and learning.