Inquiry-based Learning with Augmented Reality Mobile Application to Enhance Scientific Conceptual Understanding: TheFruitAR

Abstract

Scientific inquiry has been considered to be a process to constructing scientific knowledge. With students’ misconception of Types of Fruits and Their Flowers, we developed an augmented reality mobile application and its accompanying booklet, TheFruitAR. The purpose of this development was to enhance scientific conceptual understanding on such topic guided by inquiry learning approach. This could help facilitate their learning in a more meaningful way by interacting with interactive multimedia materials and learning activities on mobile. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of TheFruitAR, a comparative experiment was conducted with upper elementary school graders in Thailand. The findings showed that students who learned with our proposed development could outperform than those who learned with the conventional approach, indicating that TheFruitAR could enhance students’ conceptual understanding. Moreover, students also revealed positive attitudes towards learning on TheFruitAR, indicating that it motivates students to inquire knowledge.