QuizWhizzer -Assisted Educational Game Design to Improve Students' Conceptual Understanding Skills

Abstract

Conceptual understanding is an understanding that is built from factual knowledge or examples to understand the relationship between concepts. However, after studying mathematics there are still many students who are less able and mistaken in understanding concepts so that mathematics is considered difficult. For this reason, an educational and interesting learning evaluation media is needed so that students can be accommodated to understand mathematical concepts. The purpose of this study was to analyze the needs of learning evaluation to improve students' conceptual understanding skills. This research is research and development in the first stage, namely analysis. Sources of data in this study were class VIII SMP Negeri 8 Yogyakarta, material expert validators, and media expert validators. The instruments used in this study were interview guidelines, observations, questionnaires, concept understanding ability test questions, material expert validation instruments, and media expert validation instruments. The data analysis technique includes the stages of data reduction, displaying data, and conclusions. The results showed that (1) students' ability to understand mathematical concepts tended to be low, so educational games were developed; (2) QuizWhizzer-assisted educational game creation; (3) fitur educational games that contain explanation menus with writing, pictures, and videos, practice questions, games, rankings in one class or class; (4) the results of the validation of material experts and media experts indicate that the product is valid to use with an average category is good. The research will continue at the implementation and evaluation stages.