D.M. Pahlifi, H. Nurcahyo
Nowadays the application of Android-based media is currently a trend in science education research. In the subject of Invertebrates, there can be found terms use the Latin or scientific language. Students are having difficulty in following the materials of invertebrates, especially in understanding the terms of invertebrate's body structures. This research aims to know the effect of the implementation of Android-based biology dictionary on invertebrate's subject topic to improve student's learning motivation. Questionnaire is used as instrument in this research. This research used the pretest-posttest control group design. The subject was XI Grader of SMAN 2 Bantul consisted of an experimental class and a control class. The gain scores were analyzed to know the improvement of student's learning motivation. The result shows that Android-based illustrated biology dictionary is able to provide significant effect towards the improvement of student's learning motivation. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Science, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
