Effectiveness of Infotainment Approaches in Enhancing Integrated Science Processes among the Under Graduate Students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to enhance the integrated science process skills through infotainment approaches for the undergraduate student. It is a experimental research design conducted on the 35 undergraduate second year students who are studying B.Sc. physics in alagappa arts college, karaikudi. It made use of purposive random sampling in selecting 35 students. The six prominent integrated science processes used in the study are: Controlling variables, Defining operationally, Formulating hypotheses, Interpreting data, experimenting and formulating models are the integrated science processes used in this present study. An infotainment content were developed to enhance the integrated science processes. This content act as an intervention of the experimental group. There are three test were conducted from the respondents as pre-test, progressive and the post test. The post-test were conducted after the intervention. Data analysis involved the use of mean, SD,‘ t ’ test and effect size are calculated by cohen’s d to investigate the difference between the means. From the statistical findings the result indicate the integrated science process skills are highly enhanced with the infotainment strategies among the undergraduate students and it significantly enhanced the students learning achievement and desirable affective outcomes. Furthermore, it was found that the proposed approach did not increase students' cognitive load.