The Lesson Summary of Applying the “Toyota Technique of Summarizing Everything into a One Page Paper” in the Class “History of Buddhism” Taught to Students of Mahamakut Buddhist University, Siridthonrajavidyalaya Campus

Abstract

      The research is a Quasi­-Experimental Design. The purposes of this research were 1) to study the lesson summary of applying the “Toyota technique of summarizing everything into a one page paper” in the class “History of Buddhism” taught to students of Mahamakut Buddhist University, Siridhonrajavidyalaya Campus and 2) to compare the lesson summary of applying the “Toyota technique of summarizing everything into a one page paper” in the class “History of Buddhism” taught to students thereof. The class was comprised of 12 freshmen of regular session, enrolled in the Religion and Philosophy Faculty, Program in Buddhist Studies and Social Sciences Faculty, Program in government, during the first semester of B.E. 2562 (2019) academic year. The research samples were selected by means of purposeful sampling. The research instruments were comprised of pretest and posttest of the lesson summary of applying the “Toyota technique of summarizing everything into a one page paper” in the class “History of Buddhism” taught to students thereof and its assessment form by using Rubric criteria to evaluate its content. The statistics used to computerize the data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test.

           The findings were found as follows:

1. 1. In overall of the 3 aspects test, the pretest score of the result of lesson summary was at fair level (= 1.69), while its posttest score, was at good level (=3.25).
2. In overall of the 3 aspects test, the result of comparative score of the posttest was higher than the pretest at the statistically significant level of 0.01.