The Development of 4th Grade Students’ Reading and Spelling Abilities through CIRC Technique-based Learning Activities

Abstract

The objectives of the present study are 1) to develop 4^th grade students’ reading and spelling abilities through CIRC Technique-based learning activities in order that the students made a mean achievement score of 70% or better and that at least 70% of the student group pass the passing criterion and 2) to study the students’ satisfaction with the CIRC Technique-based learning activities.  The target group consisted of 16 grade-4 students in Piang-luang 18 School, under the Office of Loei Educational Service Area 1, during the first semester of the 2020 academic year. The One-Group Posttest Only Design was employed for the study.  The research instruments included 1) 9 lesson plans on the Thai language spelling section basing on CIRC Technique which took 11 instructional periods to finish, 2) a learning achievement test on reading and spelling ability consisting  of a multiple choice part of 20 items and another part of 10 items for short answers and 3) a 15-item questionnaire to inquire about the students’ satisfaction with the CIRC Technique-based learning activities.  The collected data were analyzed by means of basic statistics of percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation.

          The findings show that:

1. The students made a mean learning achievement score of 26.00 or 86.67% of the full marks in reading and spelling, and 14 students or 89.52% of the group passed the 70% criterion which is higher than the prescribed criterion,


2. The students showed the highest level of satisfaction with learning activities which was based on the CIRC Technique (arithmetic mean = 4.69 and standard deviation = 0.48).