Development of a Set of Learning Activities based on the 5-step Learning Cycle Process (5E) of Health Education Entitled the Growth and Adolescent Development for Health and Physical Education Learning Essence Group for Grade 7 Students

Abstract

          The objectives of this study were : 1) to  generate and find out the efficiency of the set of learning activities based on the 5-step learning cycle process (5E) of Health Education course   entitled Growth and Adolescent Development of Health and Physical Education Learning Essence group  for  the 7th grade students in order to enhance its efficiency following the 80/80 criteria; 2) to compare students’ learning achievement before and after learning by this set  and 3) to survey students’ satisfaction towards learning management  using this set. The participants were thirty 7^th grade at Tedsaban 2 Watpho School at Bangkla District Municipality, Chachoengsao Province, in the first semester of Academic Year 2019. The participants were chosen by simple random sampling. Research instruments consisted of 1) six sets of learning activities based on the 5-step learning cycle process (5E); 2) the 30-item achievement test about Growth and Adolescent Development; and 3) the 10-item students’ satisfaction test towards learning management. This study used pretest-posttest design.

          The statistics used were mean (), Standard Deviation (S.D.), and t-test for dependent samples.  The results showed that 1) the sets of learning activities based on the 5-step learning cycle process (5E) of  Health Education  entitled Growth and Adolescent Development of Health and Physical Education Learning Essence Group for the 7th grade students had efficiency level at 82.19/81.77 which was higher than the criteria (80/80); 2) students’ learning achievement after learning by using the learning set-based activity on the 5-step learning cycle process (5E) was  higher than those of before  learning with statistical significance at .05; and 3) the overall result of students’ satisfaction towards learning management using the learning set-based activity on the 5-step learning cycle process (5E) was at the highest level (  = 4.87, S.D.= 0.31).