Development of ‘Mr cell’ e-comic for cell structure and organization topic

This study aims to develop ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic as a teaching aid for cell structure, function and organisation subtopic and determine its usability. The ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic was built based on ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation) model and was designed using Canva and Flipsnack application. The instrument used to measure the usability of the E-Comic was a set of four-point Likert scale questionnaire. After the validity test and pilot study were conducted, the questionnaires were distributed to 97 pre-service teachers. The data were then analysed descriptively using IBM SPSS Statistic 26 software. This study successfully developed ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic that fulfills two main characteristics which are design and content. The design includes story line, background colour, font size, picture size, and the character. Meanwhile, the content focuses on increasing students’ knowledge on cell topic. The finding shows that ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic obtained high validity with CVI values for face and content validity were 0.92 and 0.94 respectively. The Cronbach’s Alpha obtained for reliability of ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic was at a good level with the value of 0.932. ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic also obtained a positive perception from pre-service teachers with a good level of mean score of 3.64. In conclusion, ‘Mr Cell’ E-Comic is suitable to be used as a teaching aid which is in line with 21st century learning as it is easy to be implemented during face to face or online teaching and learning.