DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING COURSE TO PROMOTE NON-COGNITIVE SKILL USING PROBLEM-SOLVING LEARNING FOR AUTOMATION CONTROL

Abstract

The research on this was to 1) develop a training courses to promote non-cognitive skill, 2) to find the index of the effectiveness of learning achievement training courses to promote non-cognitive skills, 3) assess the skills that learners demonstrate during learning, and 4) to study the students’ satisfaction toward with that learned the training courses to promote non-cognitive skills using problem-solving learning for automation control. In this research, learning materials were evaluated by 12 experts from both educational and engineering fields. The samples were 30 students based on purposive sampling chosen from undergraduate students who were interested in automation. The data were collected by through observation, interviews, tests, and questionnaires. The data analysis was based on frequency, percentage, effectiveness index, t-test, and content analysis. The research results are shown as follows : 1) the development of a training courses to promote non-cognitive skill using problem-solving learning for automation control comprised of : principles and background, curriculum objectives, contents and learning experiences, activities, media and learning resources, and assessment and evaluation, the assessing the suitability of the training curriculum by the experts was found the developed curriculum was highly suitable, 2) learners who followed the designed learning model has higher learning achievement as 80% in average and learning based on the designed learning model has gained the learning knowledge of learners significantly at .05 level of significant, 3) the programming skills of learners demonstrated the good level, and 4) the students opinion for training courses to promote Non-Cognitive skill using Problem-Solving Learning for automation control overall was at high level.