THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM APPROACH THROUGH A GOOGLE SITES AND PROJECT BASED LEARNING ON CREATIVE THINKING AND INNOVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) compare the creative skills and innovative skills with the prescribed criteria of 70%, 2) compare the learning achievement of the students learning abilities of Science between the pretest and posttest by the combination of the flipped classroom approach through the Google Sites and project based learning, 3) study of student satisfaction that instructed by the combination of the flipped classroom approach through the Google Sites and project based learning. The samples used in this study were students studying in the academic year 2562 from Secondary 2 of Banlanphai School, Phran Kratai District, Kamphaeng Phet Province, obtained by simple random sampling. Instrument used were: 1) experiment tools which were course syllabus and online instruction created by google site, 2) data collection tools which were an achievement test as an instrument of the pretest and the posttest, creative and innovative thinking evaluation, and satisfaction questionnaires. The results revealed that the students’ creative and innovative thinking skills were higher than the prescribed criterion of 70%. The learning achievement of the student after learning by the combination of the flipped classroom approach through the Google Sites and project based learning was higher than that before learning at the significant level of .05 Additionally, the students’ satisfaction towards learning with the flipped classroom approach through the Google Sites and project based learning was at the high level.