DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND SKILLS OF STUDENTS THROUGH RESEARCH-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Abstract

This research was a Quasi-Experimental Design with the objectives as follows: 1) to develop graduate students’ knowledge, understanding and skills through a research-based learning activity (RBL), 2) to investigate their learning achievement in ED501: Statistics and Research in Education, and 3) to compare their satisfaction of the research-based learning activity. The target population in the study consisted of graduate students from two the academic year: 2015 and 2016. Twenty-eight students were the academic year 2015 students and thirty-four were the graduate students of the academic year 2016. They took a course in the Curriculum and Instruction Program (Saturday and Sunday Program), College of Educational Sciences (CES), Dhurakij Pundit University. The course in which they had enrolled was Statistics and Research in Education (ED 501). The results of the study found that 1) after the instructional activity, all of the 62 graduate students had a level of research knowledge, understanding and skills, compared with their level measured before the activity, and the difference was significant at .05 level, 2) in terms of their learning achievement, it was found that 23 students (82.14%) out of the total of 28 students in academic year 2015 passed the learning criteria of 80%. Out of the total number of 34 students in academic year 2016, 23 students or 67.64% passed the learning criteria of 80%, and 3) the satisfaction of the two groups was not statistically significantly different from one another at .05 level