A DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL TO ENHANCE CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING BY FIELD - BASED LEARNING FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENT TEACHERS

Abstract

The objectives of this study were 1) to develop an instructional model to enhance creative problem solving by field-based learning for elementary student teachers 2) to study the results of using an instructional model to enhance creative problem solving by field-based learning for elementary student teachers. The samples were 55 student teachers in the first and second year of Elementary student teachers studying in College of Teacher Education, Phranakhorn Rajabhat University.The duration of the experimental data collection was 16 weeks.The research instruments was creative problem solving assessment. Data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The research results revealed that 1) An instructional model was developed to enhance creative problem solving by field-based learning consisted of 4 main elements as follows: 1.1 principles of the instructional model, 1.2 the objectives of the developed model, 1.3 six steps of the instructional model development including preparing of knowledge, enter the field, ask to think, mental contemplation, illustration, and reflection, 1.4 the evaluation; 2) The pre-test and posttest creative problem solving skill scores of the experimental group was significantly different at the level of .05