THE EFFECT OF GROUP INVESTIGATION ON COLLABORATIVE SKILLS AND SCIENCE LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF MATTHAYOMSUKSA 1 STUDENT

Abstract

The objective of this research were 1) to study the collaborative skills of Matthayomsuksa 1 students taught by Group Investigation (GI) method and 2) to compare the science learning achievement of Matthayomsuksa 1 students taught by Group Investigation (GI) method on Weather. The sample of this study were 35 Matthayomsuksa 1 students at Sinakhon School, Sukhothai Province in the second Semester, Academic Year 2019. The instruments used in this study consisted of 1) lesson plan taught by Group Investigation (GI) method, 2) the collaborative skills assessment by observer, by friends and self-assessment by student and 3) science learning achievement test on the topic of Weather. The statistics used in the data analysis included mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

Research findings were as follows: 1) the collaborative skills of the grade 7 students after using Group Investigation (GI) teaching were higher than before. Result of the assessment by observer was 76.60 percent, assessment by friend was 84.40 percent and self-assessment by student was 86.27 percent and the evaluation is at good level. 2) And the post-test of science learning achievement of grade 7 students after using Group Investigation (GI) was 34.09 were higher than pre-test was 16.97 at the .05 level of significant.