A Comparison of Academic Achievement in Computer-aided Jewelry Design using Rhinoceros Program for Gem and Jewelry Entrepreneurs, Chanthaburi Province

Abstract

The purpose of this study were (1) to provide learning activities of a computer-aided jewelry design using Rhinoceros program for gem and jewelry entrepreneurs in the Gem Market of Chanthaburi province to gain the efficiency at 80/80 criterion, (2) to differentiate the academic success level in jewelry design using Rhinoceros program for the participants skillful and unskilled on hand-drawing  jewelry design, (3) to measure the efficiency index of the gem and jewelry entrepreneurs participating in the learning  activities, and (4) to evaluate their  satisfaction level. The sample group consisted of 40 gem and jewelry business owners from Chanthaburi's Gem Market. The research methods included (1) a list of the computer-aided design learning activities, (2) a fifty-question test for evaluating the academic achievement, (3) a twelve-question satisfaction survey for the participants. The investigation employed the statistics of average, percentage, and standard deviation. The Independent Sample t-test was used for the hypothesis test.

            The learning activities for the computer-aided jewelry design using Rhinoceros consisted of two steps; learning to use basic jewelry-design program command and designing a piece of jewelry using the program.  The investigation findings were as follows: (1) The Rhinoceros-based jewelry design learning activities for the gem and jewelry entrepreneurs had an efficiency of 81.2/82.4. (2) The academic achievement in the Rhinoceros-based jewelry design of the entrepreneurs who were skillful and unskilled on hand-drawing jewelry design showed no significant differentiation at 0.05. (3) The efficiency index of the entrepreneurs who participated in the Rhinoceros-based jewelry design learning activities was 0.71. (4) The survey on the participants revealed the average satisfaction level for the trainer at 4.31.   The average satisfaction for the usefulness and usage of the learning activities was at 4.20. The average satisfaction level for the content of the activities was 4.10.