Active Learning Management with Technique Think-Pair-Share Technique to Enhance Analytical Thinking and Learning Achievement in the topic of Work and Energy for 8th Grade Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to compare the analytical thinking of grade 8 students before and after the active learning management with Think-Pair-Share technique and 2) to compare the learning achievement on ''Work and energy" of grade 8 students after the active learning management with Think-Pair-Share technique to the criteria of 60 percent. The sample was 42 grade 8 students in the second semester of the academic year 2023 in Kalasin Pittayasan School, under the Secondary Educational Service Area office in Kalasin. The research tools were  1) the 9 active learning management plans with Think-Pair-Share technique on “Work and Energy” for 19 hours which had appropriateness at the high to the highest level (= 4.40-4.59, S.D. = 0.36-0.52) 2) the four choices 20-items analytical thinking test, with difficulty index between 0.36 to 0.74, discrimination power between 0.31 to 0.59, and reliability of 0.85, and 3) the four choices 30-items of learning achievement test on “Work and Energy” with difficulty index ranged from 0.22 to 0.67, discrimination power between 0.33 to 0.67, and reliability of 0.90. The data analysis statistics used mean, standard deviation, one-sample t-test, and dependent-sample t-test.

            The research results showed that 1) the analytical thinking of grade 8 students after learning in the Active Learning with Think-Pair-Share was higher than those before the learning statistically significant at .05 level. And             2) the learning achievement of grade 8 students after the Active Learning with Think-Pair-Share was higher than the criteria of 60 percent statistically significant at .05 level.