A Development of Reasonable Thinking Skills Using PICA Model in a Thai Subject for Prathom Suksa 1 Students under Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate the development of reasonable thinking skills, (2) compare the effect of the students’ reasonable thinking skills in the experimental group with the set criteria, and (3) compare the effect of the development of reasonable thinking skills of the experimental group using PICA model in a Thai subject with that of the control group using a regular teaching model for Prathom Suksa 1 students under Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3.   The samples of the study in the experimental group were 17 Prathom Suksa 1 students studying at Ban Nangsaeng-Wang Ang School selected by a purposive sampling.   The research instruments included 12 lesson plans using PICA model, the end-of-cycle test, a form assessing reasonable thinking skills.  The basic statistical procedures were used for analyzing the quantitative data  while Mann Witney-U test was used for range order. 

The research findings were as follows:

1. The students were able to do activities by themselves, independent to think in various ways, and develop thinking skills in word identification, be able to compare and classify groups of words according to the set criteria. In terms of series, the students were able to arrange orders of words and situations.  In terms of making conclusion, the students could make a conclusion from the given situation and story, enabling the students to develop reasonable thinking skills higher.
2. The students were able to think reasonably higher than the set criteria with statistical significance at the critical level .05.
3. The students in the experimental group that used the PICA Model had reasonable thinking skills higher than the control group which used the regular teaching method  with statistical significance at the critical level .05.