Effects of Various User-control Strategies on Instructional Animation ★

The aim of this research is to study the effectiveness of different user-controlled animation strategy on student's performance. For that purpose, animations about Transmission Media with three different user-control strategies was prepared. The study's independent variable is a user-control strategy which consists of segmented user-control, free user-control and continuous user- control strategy and the dependant variable refers to the post-test. The research sample consists of 104 Polytechnic students, enrolled in Certificate in Information Technology course. The data was analyzed statistically by using one-way between-groups ANOVA. In conclusion, the research finding shows that the segmented user-controlled animation is better than free user- controlled and continuous user-controlled animation in improving students’ performance.