Grethel G. Bactong^{1, 2}, Abegail Dianne H. Sabas^{2, 3}, Krezel Marie M. Salva^{2, 4}, Albert John B. Lituañas², Angelo Mark P. Walag^2,

The integration of information and communication tools in education has been a common trend in the last decade which resulted in increased student engagement, motivation, and even achievement and learning. Despite these improvements, science teachers still report challenges with its use in science education. Several abstract topics in chemistry are still not This research aims to develop, design, evaluate a mobile application that can be used to teach and master binary ionic bonding topic in chemistry. The research utilized a design and development research design for the app development while a quantitative-descriptive research design was used to evaluate the app. A researcher-made rubric (Krippendorf’s alpha = 0.82) was used to evaluate the app and it was found out that the application is interactive and attractive. Intrinsic motivation was also determined using an adopted instrument and was modified to fit the objectives of this research. The respondents agreed that, in terms of their intrinsic motivation, the application had some value in it and that it increased their concentration towards learning. This implies that the developed mobile application developed can be used to teach and master binary ionic bonding topic in chemistry.

chemistry education, educational intervention, educational gamification, ICT integration, innovative teaching, innovative learning