The development and evaluation of video in teaching fasting in selected secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract

Two main focuses of (his study are to produce a video drama as an alternative ipproach to teaching lasting since some Islamic education teachers who teach at secondary school in Malaysia have no time to explore all aspects of fasting; physical, psychological, sociological and spiritual. Secondly, it is to see how students perceive lasting, their understanding and internalisation of fasting and the video itself after the lesson. A special drama was scripted and filmed. Production was carried out rigorously with the cooperation of certain bodies. The video drama based on the ADDIE’S model by focusing ‘fasting’ among secondary school students based on a needs analysis from a classroom observation conducted prior to writing the video script. The video drama managed to cover the four aspects of fasting by dramatising others’ daily activities. All these aspects learning of ‘fasting’. The product teachers, postgraduate students, and was designed on answering recent problems of teaching was experience of were taken into account to enhance the teachingwas evaluated formatively by professionals, secondary school students. To implement and evaluate summatively, eight form two classes out of 27 classes eight secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, bringing the The students were administered to see their were randomly selected from total number of students to 229. i perception, understanding and internalisation of fasting as well as the video through administered immediately after the lesson. Most students ’ as a stronger, more beneficial and special (Islamic practice) Alter watching the video drama, they responded positively towards using video drama in teaching fasting and admitted that their understanding and internalization had improved