Development of an Instructional Package via Question-based Learning to Support Capacity of Reading Comprehension for Grade 6 students

Abstract

This study aimed to 1) develop an instructional package via question-based learning to support reading comprehension for Pratom Suksa 6 students, 2) explore the package’s efficiency with the criteria at 80/80, and 3) compare the reading comprehension capacity of the students between the pre- and post-package used. The target group were 12 students from Pratom Suksa 6 in the academic year 2024, at Kaongiewnongbua School (Kururat Prasit), via purposive sampling for data collection. The research tools were 1) eight lesson plans for reading comprehension within the instructional package via question-based learning. Each plan took 2 hours, 16 hours in total, 2) eight sets of the instructional package via question-based learning, and 3) a test set of reading comprehension capacity, for the learning area of Thai language in Pratom Suksa 6. The test comprised 2 items of open-ended answers and 20 items of multiple-choice questions.The data analysis comprised efficiency, means, standard deviation, statistics, and an independent sample t-test.

The findings were as follows.

1. The instructional package via question-based learning to support reading comprehension for Pratom Suksa 6 students showed its efficiency at 82.61/ 83.33, within the criteria set at 80/80.


2. Students with the instructional package via question-based learning to support reading comprehension capacity revealed their achievement in higher than their pre-learning, with the statistical significance at .05.

Keywords: Development of instructional package via question-based learning; Support of  reading comprehension capacity; Pratom Suksa 6 students