CAPABILITIES OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION

Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the emerging technologies in the field of education in today's digital world. It enables students to see additional information on top of the real object being viewed using AR mobile applications. In the previous study conducted by the same, AR has found to improve the academic performance and Biology attitude of students. A qualitative analysis was conducted to determine whether the increase of the students' performance and Biology attitude can be explained by the use of AR in the classroom. A parallel set of questions were administered to non-AR and AR learning group. The questions comprised of the topics discussed in the classroom and their learning experiences. The students' responses were auto-coded using NVivo 12 Plus software to generate themes that served as the unifying subjects of the students' ideas. A number of themes were identified from the students' responses including the sentiments, which are contents that express emotions categorized from very negative to very positive. A Word Cloud was also generated to show the most commonly used words from the students' responses. Both groups based most of their learning experiences in the class discussions and observations to come up with realizations and substantial learning from the topic, however, the AR group were able to connect the lesson to real-life problems and perform high-levels of comprehension, enthusiasm, and engagement than the nonAR group.