Adaption of Smart Devices and Virtual
Reality (VR) in Secondary Education
R. K. A. R. Kariapper , P. Pirapuraj , M. S. Suhail Razeeth ,
A. C. M. Nafrees , and M. Fathima Roshan
Abstract Learning is an essential process for all individual spans from cradle to
graveyard. Biology is one of the subjects where most of the students have been facing
difficulties to study and memorize its content due to its complicated environment
and structures. The effective education to the students is necessary, and it could be
achieved by adopting of new technological concepts and application to their syllabi.
Virtual reality is one of the outstanding modes to the students to learn and memorize
the subject quickly. In this research, quantitative and qualitative methods were used
to determine the factors of adaption of smart devices and virtual reality (VR) in
secondary education with a pretest–posttest group. Additionally, the reliability of
the collected data was analyzed with Cronbach’s alpha test. Two hundred students
from ten schools were randomly selected for the pretest while 100 were selected for
the posttest among these 200 students; where these 100 students allowed to use VR
technology for their educational purposes, and these samples were selected using
a stratified random sampling technique. In conclusion, the research shows that the
performance of the students who used the VR tool in their studies was significantly
increased; male students are very fond of technology and tools, thus score more
marks compare with female students. At the meantime, female students are needed
to be trained (to use the VR system) more in order to learn the subjects. Also, it is
suggested to introduce this VR system to all the other subjects with proper training
R. K. A. R. Kariapper (B ) · P. Pirapuraj · M. S. Suhail Razeeth · A. C. M. Nafrees ·
M. Fathima Roshan
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Oluvil, Sri Lanka
e-mail: rk@seu.ac.lk
P. Pirapuraj
e-mail: pirapuraj@seu.ac.lk
M. S. Suhail Razeeth
e-mail: razeethsuhail@gmail.com
A. C. M. Nafrees
e-mail: nafrees@seu.ac.lk
M. Fathima Roshan
e-mail: roshanmajeedfas@seu.ac.lk
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
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