SMART HIGHWAY AND TRAFFIC APPS (SMAHiTRA): AN ONLINE LEARNING APPLICATION FOR SUBJECT DCC30103 TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Abstract

The research explores the potential factors influencing students' academic achievements and satisfaction with online learning platforms. Generally, face-to-face during class is usually known as a traditional method. However, nowadays, teaching and learning online have become more significant due to the transition of the academic world to education digitalisation. Education line in digitalisation become relevant since pandemic covid. Due to these obstacles, institutions like Polytechnic slowly transformed into fully online learning platforms to accommodate the current situation. Apart from that, the teachers also need to find a way to solve an issue or problem regarding students performance in mastery in their programme. The study is aimed to investigate students achievement and satisfaction by using apps in Highway and Traffic (DCC..) as online education platforms. The method used in this study was used quantitative method and sampling technic using simple random sampling. The respondents sampling consist of 66 from the Diploma of Civil Engineering at Polytechnic Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah. The apps called SMAHiTRA was produced as online learning tools and would be tested soon. It is hoped that this app would help students learn better and benefit students performances in assessment.