The Development of Analytical Thinking Skill in Research-based Science Course Learning for Prathom Suksa 5 Students at Ban Wangprawanghai School, Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area 1

Abstract

The purposes of this study were two-fold: to develop analytical thinking skill in a research-based Science course learning of Prathom Suksa 5 students at Ban Wangprawanghai School in Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area 1 and to compare learning achievement of the students after the operation of analytical thinking skill development  with the established criteria of 65 percent. The subjects of this study were 20 Prathom Suksa 5 students at Wangprahai School in the second semester of the academic year of 2014. There were two types of research instruments: the instruments used during the process of the analytical thinking skill development which included 15 lesson plans for the research-based Science course learning and the instruments to collect data including the Science learning achievement test, the analytical thinking skill test, and the tests after the end of each cycle learning unit. The statistical procedures employed in the data analysis were percentage, mean and standard deviation

The findings were as follows:

1. There were there cycles of learning units: The Variety of Plants, The Variety of Animals, and The Properties and Usages of Materials.
2. All the students needed to pass met the passing criteria of 65 percent with the average score of 76 percent on the learning achievement test after they finished all three cycles of learning units. With this high average score, all of them, accounting for 100 percent, passed the established passing criteria of the development of analytical thinking skill in Science course learning.