THE DEVELOPMENT OF CO-CREATING INNOVATION INSTRUCTION BY EMPLOYING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING TO ENHANCE PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN HOME ECONOMICS, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, CHIANG RAI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Home Economics Program, the Bachelor Degree of Education aimed to enhance the graduates becoming potential teachers who fulfilled with skills and abilities to develop local and community. The curriculum emphasizes on both theoretical and practical instructions. Vegetables and fruits craving course, one of the core subjects in Home Economics Program, there were a ton of vegetable and fruit wastes that need to be solved. The researcher as the lecturer purposed to design the activities employing co-creative innovation and project-based learning, to examine the effectiveness of the activities, to study problem solving skills of the students, and to evaluate students’ satisfaction toward the activities. The research instruments were course syllabus and lesson plans of vegetable and fruit carving course, the activities employing co-creative innovation and project-based learning, learning achievement evaluation, problem solving evaluation form, and satisfaction evaluation form. The research samples included 24 university students who enrolled in vegetable and fruit carving course academic year 2024. The samples were selected by purposive sampling technique according to research objectives. The result showed that the activities consisted of 6 steps including 1) stimulating creativity, 2) analyzing and synthesizing the ideas, 3) discovering collaboration, 4) inventing the products from vegetable and fruit waste, 5) sharing and expanding the project, and 6) evaluating and reflecting the result. Moreover, the learning achievement result showed that the effectiveness of the activities was equal to 82.81/91.63. The students’ problem-solving skills result was at the highest level (= 4.20, SD = 0.43). The students were satisfied with the activities at the highest level ( = 4.37, SD = 0.56).