Research and development of learning experience in STEM education to develop early childhood critical thinking skills Nongbualamphu Primary Educational Service Area Office 2

Abstract

        This research aims 1) to create and develop a learning experience for STEM education, 2) to investigate the effectiveness of the STEM learning experience, 3) to compare the critical thinking skills of early childhood children and after organizing the STEM learning experience, and 4) to investigate the results of using the STEM learning experience. The sample group consisted of 10 experts in the early childhood education, 80 early childhood teachers and early childhood children under the Office of Nongbualamphu Primary Education Area, District 2, totally 1,400 people. The research tool was a questionnaire, a learning experience plan, STEM education, a teacher attitude measurement form, a critique analysis, data analysis using statistics, mean, and standard deviation. T-test The results showed that experts and early childhood teachers had a high level of need for the overall STEM education learning experience. The luminaries had a mean plus the appropriateness of the STEM learning experience of 3.87 which was appropriate in the level. The average score after the experiment was significantly higher than the average score of the pre-trial children of 5 critical thinking skills for early childhood children which was statistically significant at the .01.