Student Acceptance of Google Classroom Learning Management System Among Form Six Economics Students

Abstract

The pandemic is forcing educators to transform their existing approach to digital learning. The Ministry of Education Malaysia aspires to acclimate to the present changes by enhancing the quality of the existing education system to digital education by endowing technology integration. One of the measures submitted is the innovation of the delivery methods assisted by the Google Classroom Learning Management System at the school level. Nevertheless, past studies have concentrated more on students in public institutes of higher learning. Hence, this research aimed to identify students’ perceptions of the existing economics learning methods and evaluate the acceptance of Google Classroom among Form Six economics students. This survey study adopted questionnaire instruments distributed to 206 students in Malacca using randomly selected respondents from the cluster. Descriptive analysis using the mean and standard deviation was used to report student acceptance of Google Classroom. This study confirmed that students perceived economics subjects as complex, but they acknowledged that technology could enhance learning activities. Summary of the data analysis recorded that student acceptance was moderately high. This analysis contributes to the school administrators, teachers, and students to devise advancements in the existing delivery methods in schools. This research is prevalent in the current learning atmosphere that demands evolution over previous learning approaches. The researcher recommends experimental investigations to assess the effectiveness of using Google Classroom on student achievement and perform a Differential Item Functioning (DIF) to evaluate the tendency of respondents who have similar characteristics and abilities to an item.