The Effects of Surin Local foods Cooking Activities on Executive Function Skills of Kindergarten 3 Children of Thatum School Cluster 1 under Surin Primary Educational Service Area Office 2

Abstract

        The objectives of this research were: 1. to study the effects of surin local foods cooking activities on executive function skills of kindergarten 3 children each week, and 2. to compare the effects of surin local foods cooking activities on executive function skills of kindergarten 3 children's each week. The sample group includes kindergarten 3 children studying in the first semester of the 2024 academic year at Tha Tum Kindergarten School (Sanitrat Witthayakhom) of Thatum School Cluster 1 under Surin Primary Educational Service Area Office 2; there is 1 room with 19 children, obtained by random sampling. The research tools were a plan for organizing cooking activities is most appropriate and the assessment of executive thinking skills of early childhood children with a reliability value of .93. It is a quasi-experimental type of research. It uses a time series design experiment. The statistics included mean, standard deviation, and test hypotheses by finding the variance of repeated measure-ANOVA.

              The findings were as follows: 1. The effects of surin local foods cooking activities on executive function skills of kindergarten 3 childhood each week total and each aspect were at a high level. 2. The comparison of the effects of surin local foods cooking activities on executive function skills of kindergarten 3 childhood each week total, there was a statistically significant difference at the .05 level; when considering each aspect; inhibition control, focus/attention, and planning and organizing were a statistically significant difference at the .05 level, when comparing pairwise the total and each aspect has developed the executive function skills highly continuous.