Comparison of Learning Achievement Social Studies Subject of the Mathayomsuksa 6 Students, the nature resources-environment crisis and Management subject Using Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach

Abstract

Comparison of Learning Achievement Social Studies Subject of the Mathayomsuksa 6 Students, the nature resources-environment crisis and Management subject Using Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach. The purposes of this research were: (1) to study The efficiency’s lesson plans Social Studies, Religions and Cultures Subject, the nature resources-environment crisis and Management subject between Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach with the required efficiency of 80/80 (2) to study The Effectiveness Index of Lesson plans Social Studies, Religions and Cultures Subjects, the nature resources-environment crisis and Managements subject between Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach. (3) to compare learning achievements, Department of Social Studies, Religions and Cultures, the nature resources-environment crisis and Managements subjects between Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach. (4) to compare satisfaction students, Social Studies, Religions and Cultures Subject, the nature resources-environment crisis and Managements subject between Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach. Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Secondary) in the first semester of the academic year 2017, selected through the purposive sampling technique. The instruments were: plans for learning activities using of the two mentioned approaches, each plan lasts 2 hour a week for the total of 8 hours of teaching; a 40-item achievement test with discrimination ranging 0.25-0.89 and a reliability of 0.89; and a 15-item rating-scale questionnaire on satisfactions social subject learning with discrimination ranging 0.22-0.65 and reliability of 0.84.

The results of the study were as follows:
1. The plans of learning management using the Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach of Mathayomsuksa 6 had efficiencies of 86.34/85.86 and 83.44/82.22 respectively.
2. The effectiveness indices of plans of learning management by using the Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” and Conventional Approach, were 0.7020 and 0.6371 respectively.
3. The students in both Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” class and the Conventional Approach class gains higher score of Learning achievement, social studies than before at the level of significance .05
4. The students in both Cooperative Learning “Jigsaw” class and the Conventional Approach class gains higher score of satisfaction questionnaire, social studies subject than before