THE EFFECTS OF STUDY COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL THROUGH THE TEACHING OF FOUNDATION OF THAI CIVILIZATION SUBJECT: CERTIFICATED STUDENTS RAJAMANGALA INSTITUTE OF TECHONOLOGY ; POH-CHANG CAMPUS

Abstract

The objective of this research was to compare the study achievement on Thai Government and Politics of Higher Technical Certificate students of Rajamangala Institute of Technology, Poh Chang Art Campus based on the teaching techniques. The total of 49 Poh Chang art students of the 2nd Semester, 2002 academic year were simple random sampled and, then, randomly divided into 2 grc"Jps; 20 students for the experimental group and the rest for controlled one. The learning-centered teaching technique was used for the experimental group whereas the standard teaching technique was for the other. This research was nonrandomized control group pretest-posttest design. The research tool were the measurement for study achievement, teaching plan of StudentTeams-Achievement division: STAD), and the group observation form for collecting the qualitative and quantitative data. Statistics applied for quantitative data analysis was ANCOVA (One-Way Analysis of Covariance) with the pretest score as the covariate. Interpretation was used for qualitative data analysis. The findings revealed that 1.There was a significant difference between the study achievement of the students at the level of 0.05 based on teaching techniques. 2.The experimental group had a better team working performance.