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TABLE V. Results of students’ interest before and after using MBL through MSL
Interest Construct Before Level After Level Difference
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Interest / Fun 3.07 0.55 High 3.20 0.58 High 0.13 0.03
Effenciency of handling 2.77 0.59 High 2.97 0.59 High 0.20 0.00
Efficiency make a choice 2.30 0.63 Medium 2.37 0.68 Medium 0.07 0.05
Pressure / Suspense 2.34 0.66 Medium 2.32 0.69 Medium -0.02 0.03
Overall 2.62 0.61 Medium 2.72 0.64 High 0.10 0.03
These results tell that the mastery of the student also encourages student participate in hands-on science
science process is low and this contributes to the lowering of exercises [35].
students' interest which parallel with the study of [30]. Hence, All the results showed that students were interested
it can be concluded that some students have a good interest in and positive to learn Physics when technology was used.
Physics but there are obstacles that cause them not to continue Therefore, it is proposed that the school teachers, especially
their interest. This may be due to a learning approach that does teachers, to use technology in teaching and learning as
not involve all senses [15]. students are now digital generation students [31]. The use of
Next, the findings on the students' interest after using technology is not only in line with current students, but also
MBL through MSL showed that the level increased to a high helps students to understand more professionally as they are
level with a mean of 2.72 and a standard deviation of 0.64. given a broader opportunity to participate in learning [6] and
This proves that an attractive, conducive and technologically [36]. Additionally, it will also give pleasure and satisfaction to
appealing environment can attract them to learn as suggested the student himself.
by [31]. An increase in student interest helps students to
understand more about concepts and to generate students' IV. CONCLUSION
minds [6] and [32]. Students feel that this computer-based This study is one of the efforts to find the appropriate
experiment is very useful to them in gaining experience method in teaching and learning to increase students' interest
directly with a wider simulation rate [33]. Hence, this can in Physics subjects. The findings showed that there was a
prove that the use of MBL through MSL is able to help nurture change in the student's interest in Physics experiments before
and re-energize the student's interest in Physics. and after using MBL through MSL, where their level of
Both findings showed that there was an increase in enthusiasm changed from middle to high level. This study also
student interest. However, the analysis of the differences shows that the use of MBL through MSL can stimulate
between these two levels of interest indicates the opposite students' interest in learning Physics and gained positive
result where no significant difference occurs between their perceptions from the students. Therefore, it is hoped that this
level of interest before and after using MBL through MSL study will help certain parties in the effort to prepare the
based on the analysis of t test with the overall t value of -1.237 country towards developed countries especially in the field of
and the value of p. 276. The results obtained were due to the education.
small sample size of the study. The number of Form 4 students
selected is 64 people and only involves two schools in a
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