Digital Comics in Online Learning During COVID-19: Its Effect on Student Cognitive Learning Outcomes

Abstract

<p class="0abstract">Comics have been used as an alternative tool to improve student learning outcomes during the pandemic, but not yet for junior high school science learning.<strong> </strong>The study aims to explore the impact of digital comics in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic on students' cognitive learning outcomes (CLO). A quasi-experimental research design was used in the study. A total of 42 eighth-grade students participated in the current study. They were randomly assigned to two conditions. The first condition was online learning assisted by digital comic media. The second condition was non-comic online learning. A multiple-choice test developed by the researchers was used to measure students' CLO. Although the number of participants is limited, an independent samples t-test was used to analyze the data because the data was normally distributed. The results show that students' CLO differs significantly between comic and non-comic assisted online learning in favor of comic assisted online learning conditions. The possible reasons behind the findings were discussed. As a conclusion, several suggestions for researchers and teachers were offered.</p>

Using Comics for Climate Change in Science Education: Students' Solutions and Aesthetic Subtleties

“…To this extent, comics can be used to create questions in minds in a way that the content of the education is suitable for the target age groups (Friesen et al, 2018). When the studies conducted in the educational context are examined, it is seen that the comics prepared by the researchers have frequently been used to educate students with the presentation method at various teaching levels (Ak et al, 2020;Cabrera et al, 2018;Damopolii, et al, 2021;Hermita et al, 2020;Roswati et al, 2019;Silva & Oliveira, 2018;Topkaya, 2016;Ünal & Demirkaya, 2019). Within the scope of bachelor's level Ataturk's Principles and Revolution History lesson, there is also a study (Erol Şahin & Kara Erol, 2022) in which digital comics are used in the learning processes of students.…”

“…However, the digital stories in this study were created by the researcher using the Powtoon software. Experimental studies (Damopolii et al, 2021;Malau et al, 2021) and adopting the design-development model (Özdemir, 2017;Roswati et al, 2019) have been carried out in order to investigate the effect of using digital comics on learning in science lessons. Since the aforementioned studies aim to develop effective material, it is seen that they have been carried out in line with different research questions and with various methods.…”

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“…Dalam pengajaran membaca, (Damopolii et al, 2021) mengatakan penggunaan komik digital di masa pandemi ini bisa menjadi pendekatan yang berharga. Faktanya, ada banyak tantangan dan batasan yang dihadapi siswa dalam menerapkan pembelajaran online.…”

“…Penelitian ini melihat penggunaan komik digital dalam pemahaman membaca siswa dan bagaimana komik digital mengembangkan kreativitas siswa dalam belajar. Penggunaan komik digital dalam pengajaran banyak Inggris membantu guru dan siswa untuk memahami bacaan (Ahsanah & Utomo, 2020;İlhan et al, 2021;Istiq'faroh et al, 2020;Khotimah et al, 2020) Kegiatan pengabdian ini menjadi berbeda dengan yang lain karena menggunakan dua hal yang berbeda dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris yaitu strategi PQRST dan komik digital dalam pengembangkan kemampuan pemahaman membaca masyarakat pendidik di salah satu sekolah menengah di Barru.…”

Analysis of student learning independence during the pandemic

“…Such a person is very much needed to build a nation's pillars. The world of education at this time cannot be carried out effectively because the world is being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic (Damopolii et al, 2021).…”