Developing the Creative Cane Designing STEM Education Unit for Grade 6 Thai Students
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The study aimed to clarify the development of the creative cane designing STEM education unit for Grade 6 Thai students. The sample group consisted of 17 Grade 6 students in Ban Noen-Rang Wittayakarn School, under the Office of Khon Kaen Primary Educational Service Area l, who were selected through a cluster random sampling during the second semester of academic year 2017. Methodology was the quantitative research. The pretest and protest design was applied in order to validate the quality of the creative cane designing STEM Education unit. The study was to compare pretest and posttest about student achievement on science learning, critical thinking ability and attitude toward STEM unit. The research instruments included instructional set of the creative cane designing STEM Education unit, achievement test on science learning, critical thinking ability test, and questionnaire on attitude toward STEM unit. Data analysis was descriptive analysis. The mean, standard deviation, and t-test were computed in order to provide comparison of pretest and posttest about student achievement on science learning, critical thinking ability and attitude toward STEM unit. The results indicated that the ceative cane designing STEM Education unit was good quality. The efficiency of the ceative cane designing STEM Education unit passed criterion of E1: 80 and E2: 80. It revealed that the mean for efficiency of process (E1) was 82.94. And, the mean for efficiency of product (E2) was 81.18. It indicated that the students’ mean of pretest and posttest on science learning achievement have been significantly (.01) different. The students’ mean of pretest and posttest on critical thinking ability have been significantly (.01) different. The students’ mean of pretest and posttest on attitude towards STEM unit have been significantly (.01) different. This study has implications for developing STEM education unit in primary school.
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