Using Active Learning to Enhance Student’s Documentary Writing Skill Based on Local Information for 12 Grade Students

Abstract

             The purpose of this research were: 1) to use an active learning approach to enhance the student’s learning process for documentary writing skill based on their local information for 12 Grade Students in which it should meet a 75/75 standard criteria; and 2) to compare the student’s writing skill before and after allowing them to learn via the active learning approach. The sample group comprised 30 students from a class of 12/7 Grade Students in Prasatwittayakarn School, Surin Province, who were studying in Semester 2/2022. These students were selected by simple random sampling using a lottery method in which the classroom was a sampling unit. The research tools were: 1) A set of 10 lesson plans on enhancing the student’s documentary writing skill using an active learning approach; and 2) An essay test on the student’s documentary writing skill using local information. After that, the collected data was finally analyzed to define the mean score and the Standard Deviation (S.D.); the dependent samples t-test was performed as well.
             The research result found that:
             1. The effectiveness of the lesson plans on enhancing the student’s documentary writing skill from the local information of 12 Grade Students significantly reached the E1/E2 criteria of 83.23/83.27 which was higher than the expected 75/75 criteria.
             2. The student’s post-test score on documentary writing skill was higher with than their pre-test score with a statistical significance of .05.