Research and Development of Learning Management Innovations Creative Drama to Develop Grade 9 Students’ Reading Skills

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to compare Grade 9 students’ reading skills between before and after the intervention of the creative drama in learning activities about Phra Aphai Mani: Phra Aphai Mani Escapes from Nang Pea Suea Samut 2) to examine students’ satisfaction of students the intervention of the creative drama. The experimental group consists of 30 Grade 9 students in Namon Pittayakom School. Kalasin Province, semester 1, academic year 2022. The experimental group was selected by purposive sampling. Research instruments included 1) nine lesson plans of creative drama, 2) multiple-choice reading skill test, 3) six worksheets, 4) satisfaction questionnaire on the intervention. Research design was one group pretest posttest design. Data analysis was descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The findings showed that Grade 9 students’ posttest score of students’ reading skills on creative drama about Phra Aphai Mani: Phra Aphai Mani Escapes from Nang Phi Suea Samut higher than pretest (.05 significance). And, majority of students held very good level of satisfaction on the intervention of creative drama.