The Effect of Organizing Learning Experience by Using Phenomenon-Based Learning on Preschool Children’s Creative Problem-solving Abilities at Ban Teebtai School in Phetchabun Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the relationship between preschool children’s creative problem-solving abilities before and after organizing learning experiences using phenomenon-based learning; and 2) compare preschool children’s creative problem-solving abilities before and after organizing learning experiences using phenomenon-based Based Learning. The population in this research consisted of 21 preschool children, boys and girls, aged 5–6 years, who attended preschool level 3 in the second semester of the academic year 2021 at Ban Teebtai school, BoThai sub-district, NongPhai district, Phetchabun province.  They were obtained by purposive sampling.  The research instruments were 32 learning experiences using phenomenon-based learning lesson plans and 3 aspects of preschool children’s creative problem-solving abilities tests, including 10 items of the problem-understanding aspect, 10 items of the problem-solving presentation aspect, and 10 items of the selecting problem-solving methods aspect, totaling 30 items. The experiment took 8 weeks, 4 days a week, with 30 minutes each during experience enhancement activities. The statistics used to analyze the data were the mean, standard deviation, and Chi - square test.      

The research results showed that 1) the relationship between preschool children’s creative problem-solving abilities before and after organizing learning experiences using phenomenon-based learning was related overall and in each aspect with a statistically significant level of.05; and 2) preschool children after organizing learning experiences using phenomenon-based learning had higher creative problem-solving abilities than before the experiment in the problem-understanding aspect, problem-solving presentation aspect, and selecting problem-solving methods aspect with a statistically significant level of .05.