Evaluations of the Islamic Sex Education (ISE) Courseware Prototype for Parents Based on Cognitive Theory

This study developed Islamic Sex Education (ISE) interactive courseware to help users particularly parents discover guidelines in guiding them for sex education in Islam. In fact, sex education in Islam provides guidelines in manners related to what is allowed and forbidden, and stresses the faith towards the religion. Islam believes that parents play the main role to educate their children about this matter. However, the deficiency of this ‘taboo’ learning material in conveying the information makes the situation more stressful. In consequence, this study proposed the courseware as an attempt to the problem. We have conducted two evaluations namely; learning and reaction evaluation towards the effectiveness of the prototype with 41 respondents, which are parents. Employing the pre and post test, learning evaluation that includes 15 similar questions about ISE was given before and after the respondents used the courseware prototype. Meanwhile, the reaction evaluation was given after the respondents used the courseware prototype in assessing the overall effectiveness of the prototype. After analyzing the data, we found that the correct answers of the learning evaluation were increased after the respondents used the prototype; and overall they agreed the effectiveness of the prototype in increasing their knowledge.