The Development of Project Based Learning on Web to Enhance Digital Competency in Home Page Making Course for Grade 8 Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to develop the project-based learning on web, 2) to assess digital competency of Grade 8 students and 3) to investigate the students’ opinions on the project-based learning on web. The target group  was thirty-seven Grade 8 students studying at Demonstration School, Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University. They were selected by simple random sampling method. One shot case study was employed to conduct the study. Also, waterfall development model was used to develop the web-based learning material. The research results were as follows: 1) Learning management of the project-based learning and the promotion of digital competency in the classroom using lesson plans and web-based learning material. These were passed  the evaluation of the experts with the highest level of appropriateness. Furthermore, the students’ project mean scores were 23.69 points with the standard deviation (S.D.) of 5.467 from the total score of 30 points, accounted for 78.97%. 2) The results of digital competency assessment found that the students performed the learning activities (worksheets) and the projects in each lesson plans after learning with the project- based learning on web and gained average score  of 81.22 point, with the standard deviation (S.D.) of 5.812 from the total score of 90 point, accounted for 90.25%. And 3) The students indicated strongly agreed with the learning developed by the researcher ( = 4.23, S.D. = 0.729).