THE USE OF STEAM EDUCATION LEARNING TO DEVELOP MATTAYOM SUKSA 3 STUDENTS’ CREATIVE THINKING

Abstract

The purposes of this research were; 1) to synthesize the efficiency of guidelines for creating lessons based on STEAM Education for the development of students’ creative thinking. 2) to compare the learning achievement of the students, before and after the implementation of the lessons based on STEAM Education 3) to investigate the creative thinking ability of the students who used the lessons based on STEAM Education 4) to study the satisfaction of the students who used the lessons based on STEAM Education. The experimental group was 30 Mattayom Suksa 3 students from Angthong College of Dramatic Arts in the first semester of 2018 academic year got from the Purposive Sampling technique. The research instruments were a teaching model of STEAM Education, a learning management plan in accordance with STEAM Education, an achievement test, a creativity test, and a satisfaction questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using mean and standard deviation.

The findings revealed many interesting issues. First, the guidelines for learning management by STEAM Education for the development of students’ creative thinking showed the efficiency index at 78.83/78.75 which was higher than the standard index at 75/75. Second, after learning by STEAM Education, students’ achievement was statistically higher at a significance level of 0.01. Third, creative thinking ability of students after learning by STEAM Education was statistically higher than the former at a significance level of 0.01. Finally, satisfaction of students who learned by STEAM Education showed the highest level.