Developing Teaching and Learning Methods using a Research-Based Teaching Strategy in the Digital age to Empower/Enhance Innovators for Undergraduate Students

Abstract

The following are the goals of this study article:   1) to develop and assess the caliber of instructional strategies for undergraduate students in the digital age that use research-based methodologies to cultivate innovators, 2) to test an innovative, research-based curriculum in the digital era to prepare undergraduates to be innovators. The sample group consists of 36 undergraduate general science majors from Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University Faculty of Education. They were selected using a simple random sampling technique that involved a lottery drawing, and the sampling unit was a classroom. The sample group was drawn from the first semester of the academic year 2023. The instruments employed in the study were; 1) one evaluation form for innovation thinking skills, and 2) one innovation performance evaluation form. The study's findings indicate that, in order to develop innovators for undergraduate students, 1) develop and assess the caliber of instructional strategies utilizing research-based procedures in the digital age; 1.1) helping undergraduate students in the digital age become better innovators by creating a research-based instructional model with five components: principles, objectives, content, teaching and learning process, and assessment and evaluation, 1.2) it was established that the research-based processes-based teaching model's applicability in the digital age to strengthen innovators for undergraduate students has the highest level of consistency, and that the model's quality of application to foster innovators in undergraduate students, including the highest level of accuracy, with a mean of 4.87 and a standard deviation of 0.04, and both the applicability of the research-based processes-based teaching model in the digital era to strengthen innovators for undergraduate students has the highest level of consistency, with a mean of 4.87 and a standard deviation of 0.04 from the quality of the model's application to foster innovators in undergraduate students, including the highest level of accuracy, 2) experimenting with research-based teaching methods in the digital era to foster innovators for undergraduate students, it appears that; 2.1) After studying first level, students who employed a research-based teaching technique to improve their ability to solve problems creatively in the digital age demonstrated statistically significant increases in their average scores, and 2.2) students are taught using a research-based approach to empower innovators in the digital age; average scores for innovation work at the .01 level are much higher than the required amount.