Music and Thai Way of Life for Prathomsuksa IV Students : A Study of Integrated Learning Unit in Arts Themes

Abstract

The first purpose of this study was to explore the outcomes of integrated instruction with a learning unit in arts themes of music and Thai way of life for Prathomsuksa IV students. The second purpose was to make a comparative study of learning achievement before and after using the integrated learning unit. The third purpose was to check into the students’ ability in performing arts while learning the integrated lessons. The fourth purpose was to examine the students’ satisfaction from learning with the integrated lessons. The beneficial outcome of this study was a series of integrated lessons. The results from this study are used as guidelines for teachers and school administrators interested in developing further integrated lessons in other fields of learning. The study was conducted through administration of a pre-test to an experimental group of 33 students in their first semester of the school year 2014 at Nonudom Noppadol Uppatham School. The students were selected by purposive sampling and then taught for 18 hours with a series of six integrated lessons which were verified by a panel of five experts. Data collection tools was an achievement test of 30 items with IOC values of 0.60-1.00, difficulty values of 0.60-0.92, discrimination values of 0.22-0.85 and confidence value of 0.90. Student satisfaction from learning was investigated after all six plans are implemented. The students were then given a post-test with the previously used test paper with an independent t-test. The results were statistically processed for averages, percentages and standard deviation by a software application.