THE IMPACT OF USING VISUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON STUDENT PROGRAMMING COURSE LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA

This study investigates the relationship between the use of visual learning environment and student achievements in programming courses at the Faculty of Vocational Studies of Universitas Airlangga. This study involves 200 first year students in the information system department. The 200 students were divided into two groups. Each group consisted of 100 students. Group one was the experimental group and group two was the control group. The lecture in-group one was delivered using visual learning environment programming tools while the lecture in-group two was delivered using traditional methods, which were a presentation, discussion technique. The t-test of the two samples and descriptive statistics were used to study the relationship between visual learning environment and learning achievement in programming courses. This study observed a significant relationship between the use of visual learning environment and student academic achievement, suggested by the statistically significant differences between each group. The significance level value is 0.05. The conclusion is that visual learning environment usage might produce more significant increases in academic achievement than non-usage.