Development of Learning Activities Using Activity-Based Learning to Enhance Written Communication Abilities for Prathom Suksa 1 Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were 1) to create and evaluate the effectiveness of activity-based learning activities to promote communicative writing ability for Prathom Susa 1 students, achieving an effectiveness criterion of 75/75;
2) to study the effects of using activity-based learning activities to promote communicative writing ability for Prathom Susa 1 students, specifically;
2.1)  comparing communicative writing ability before and after instruction with the learning activities; 2.2) comparing communicative writing ability after instruction with the 75% criterion using the learning activities; and 3) to study student satisfaction with the activity-based learning activities to promote communicative writing ability. The research was conducted using a research and development process. The sample group consisted of 44 Prathom Susa 1 students from Phitsanulok Kindergarten School, semester 2, academic year 2024, selected using simple random sampling. The research instruments included 1) activity-based learning activities, 2) activity-based lesson plans, 3) a communicative writing ability test, and 4) a student satisfaction survey regarding the learning activities. The research findings revealed that 1) activity-based learning activities to promote communicative writing ability for Prathom Susa 1 students were 76.11/77.04 effective, meeting the established criteria; 2) students' communicative writing ability after the intervention was significantly higher than before the intervention at the .05 statistical significance level, and their communicative writing ability after the intervention was significantly higher than the established criteria at the .05 statistical significance level; and 3) students had the highest level of satisfaction ( = 4.54, S.D. = 0.23).