Android App for Virtual Chemistry

With the increasing usage of mobile technologies and Internet in this current world, this paper will represents a framework on learning SPM chemistry subject by virtual experiments for secondary upper high school students which age between 16 and 17 years old through mobile application. In Malaysia, mobile learning technology based on education is not yet widely used compared to foreign country such as UK, Japan and China. Other than that, in Malaysia, students are losing their interest in science subjects such as chemistry due to several factors such as difficulty to come up with the right conceptions on the process, failure to analyse pictures and diagrams and problems to construct their own understanding on the subjects. Moreover, mobile applications chemistry available on the market is not suitable to be used as reference because it does not follow the Malaysian syllabus which focuses more on the theories. Hence, the main objective of this project is to develop a mobile application for chemistry subject that acts as an aid and supportive tool for the students in learning chemistry where they can observe the experiment virtually and construct their own understanding based on their observation. This report will focused on the problems and objectives, literature review, research methodology applied which are Rapid Application Development (RAD) model and results and discussion. In data elicitation stage, the authors use both quantitative and qualitative techniques where the author gathers the information through interview and survey to both chemistry teachers and students. Based on the user testing survey conducted to secondary upper high school students, most of the students agreed that this application can help to increase their understanding in chemistry and also applicable to be used in the classroom. Thus, this paper will discuss on how it is achieved.