ORGANIZING OF LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR ANALYTICAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHER IN THE AREA OF OCCUPATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to design organizing of learning experience for analytical thinking development among teachers in the learning area cluster of occupations and technology, to compare the knowledge of the analytical thinking before and after the workshop and to determine the teachers’satisfaction towards the organizing learning experience after the workshop. This experimental study followed the Pre-experimental research of the One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Samples were 11 Prathom-Sueksa- 6 teachers in the learning area clusters of occupations and technology in Thin Poo Thai Network Facilitating Center, Sakonnakhon Primary Education Service Area Office 1 in academic year 2015. Data-collecting tools were an analytical thinking test for teachers with the reliability level at 0.78 and the discrimination power level at 0.12-1.00 difficulty index 0.20-0.80 and a satisfaction questionnaire towards the organizing learning experience with the reliability level at 0.92. Data were analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and the dependent t-test.

Findings revealed that the design of organizing of learning experience for analytical thinking development among teachers in the learning area cluster of occupations and technology which was done in the form of a workshop consisted of integrated activities between knowledge of the analytical thinking development and approaches / theories about the organizing learning experience. As for the teachers’ knowledge of the analytical thinking, the knowledge after the workshop was significantly higher than that before at the statistical level .01. Moreover, the teachers who participated in the workshop were satisfied at the highest level with the organizing learning experience in terms of the resource persons in the workshop, knowledge and understanding and further application of the earned knowledge and understanding.