The Development of Media Literacy Skills in Library Club for High School Students at Triamudom Suksa School, Bangkok

Abstract

        The objectives of this research were 1) to develop learning activities to promote media literacy skills in Library Club for high school students at Triamudom Suksa School, Bangkok, 2) to study the effects of implementing the developed learning activities to promote media literacy skills in Library Club for high school students at Triamudom Suksa School, Bangkok. This study used the research and development methodology while qualitative research methods was applied to collect data. The population of this research consisted of 40 high school students in Library Club from grade 10-12 at Triamudom Suksa School, Pathumwan District, Bangkok, in the 2017 academic year. The samples were library users who joined the Library Club activities, which were selected from total population. The research tools consisted of lesson plans and a series of activities, media literacy skills assessment form to collect data. The researcher has designed learning activities to promote media literacy skills for 4 learning units. 8 lesson plans were designed for implementing learning activities. Data were analyzed using mean ( ) and standard deviation (S.D.).
          The results of the research indicated that 1) The first media literacy skill, Accessibility, was at a very good level ( = 88.75, S.D. = 3.28), 2) The second media literacy skill, Analysis, was at a very good level ( = 86.88, S.D. = 2.87), 3) The third media literacy skill, Evaluation, was at a very good level ( = 88.01, S.D. = 3.03), and 4) The fourth media literacy skill, Creation, was at a very good level ( = 84.00, S.D. = 4.89).