The Development of Learning Achievement and Satisfaction on the Investigation Instructional in Prominent Literary Course

Abstract

          The study aims to develop students’ learning achievement in a Prominent Literary course by using an investigation instructional, and to study the students’ satisfactions on the teaching method. The fifty-three third-year Thai major students, who enrolled in the TH 2101306 Prominent Literary course of the first semester in the academic year of 2019, were sampled using the purposive sampling. The student samples studied in the Prominent Literary course which employed the investigation instructional method. They needed to do the achievement pre-test and post-test in the prior and after of the course, and also needed to complete the satisfaction evaluation form on the use of the teaching method in the course. Percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to analyzed the data. The results found that the investigation instructional method could help enhancing the students’ learning achievement in the course. In the end of the learning course, the students’ post-test scores were higher than their pre-test with the statistically significant level at .01. The student also had the satisfactions on the learning method, in over all, was at the very high level (x ̅ = 4.68, S.D. = 0.49).