Development of Creative Writing Skill Using Synectics Model of The Thai Language for Prathom Suksa 6 Students under the Jurisdiction of Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to develop a creative writing skill using Synectics Model of teaching, 2) compare the results of the development of a creative writing skill before and after using Synectics Model of teaching, and 3) compare the result of the development of creative writing skill between the students taught by using Synectics Model and those taught by a conventional method. The samples were 64 Prathom Suksa 6 students divided into an experimental group and a control group. The research instruments were lesson plans, a behavior observation form, while-learning test, end-of-the-cycle test, and a test assessing writing ability with discrimination power ranging from 0.26 to 0.54. difficulty index ranging from 0.38 to 0.58, and reliability of 0.91. The statistical procedures for data analysis were basic statistics and t-test.

The research findings were as follows:

1. The development of creative writing skill using Synectics Model of teaching had three cycles. Cycle 1, before and after the development, the average scores were 15.24 and 34.50 or 37.50%, and 72.50% respectively. Cycle 2, before and after the development, the average scores were 26.44 and 43.56 or 44% and 76% respectively. Cycle 3, before and after the development, the average scores were 15.12 and 24.76 or 46.67% and 80% respectively.
2. The students in the experimental group had developed creative writing skill after teaching significantly higher than before teaching at the critical level .01, and they had developed creative writing skill significantly higher than the control group at the critical level .01.