THE INQUIRY LEARNING MODEL TO DEVELOP THE ACHIEVEMENT ON CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF UPPER SECONDARY PRINCESS CHULABHORN’S COLLEGE CHONBURI

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to develop a quality and efficiency web-based instruction on conceptual model 2) to develop a quality and efficiency of Inquiry learning model on conceptual model 3) to compare the learning achievement of students between those learning with the inquiry learning model and those who learned with the conventional approach. The sample of this study, obtained from Cluster Random Sampling, were 72 high school students studying in grade 10, in semester 1 of the academic year of 2015 at Princess Chulabhorn’s College Chonburi. The research instruments included the web-based instruction on conceptual model, the assessment form for WBI, the Inquiry lesson plan, the assessment form for Inquiry lesson plan and learning achievement test which had the degree of difficulty between 0.23-0.77 and the degree of discrimination between 0.20-0.88; the reliability coefficient of the test was at 0.81. Data were analyzed by means of standard deviation and t-test for independent samples.

The results showed that 1) the quality of web-based instruction on conceptual model was at a good level ( = 4.14) while the efficiency (E 1 /E 2 ) was at 83.92/81.90 2) The quality of inquiry learning lesson plan was at an excellent level (= 4.52) and the inquiry learning model efficient (E 1 /E 2 ) was at 84.33/84.58 3) the learning achievement of the students learning with inquiry learning via web-based instruction was significantly higher than that of those learning with conventional instruction at .05 level.