A STUDY OF CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY OF MATHAYOMSUKSA III STUDENTS THROUGH INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN PROBABILITY
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The purposes of this research were to 1) study students’ critical thinking ability through inquiry-based learning activities in probability, and 2) compare students’ critical thinking ability between the ones who learned probability through inquiry-based learning activities and other students who studied the topic through conventional activities. The subjects selected by a method of quota sampling were Mathayomsuksa III students from Suankularb school in Bangkok, during the second semester of the 2017 academic year. They were divided into two groups. In the first group, forty students were taught probability through inquiry-based learning activities and in the second group, forty students studied the topic through conventional activities.
The instruments used in this research included 1) eleven lesson plans provide students to learn probability through inquiry-based learning and 2) a test on critical thinking ability. Percentage, mean ( ), standard deviation (S.D.), Z-test for Population Proportion and t-test for Independent Samples were employed in
the analysis of data.
The findings revealed that: (1) the number of students who scored since 60% on the critical thinking ability test was more than 60% of the total number of students. The Z-test was analyzed at .05 level of significance; and (2) the t-test showed that the students who were taught probability through inquiry-based learning activities gained significantly in terms of critical thinking ability better than the students who were taught probability through conventional activities at the .01 level.
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