The Development of Problem Solving Ability of Early Childhood Students Through the Science Activities Plan for Early Childhood Level

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the levels of problem solving and to compare the ability in problems solving of the early childhood students through the science activities plan. Samples of the research were a group of girls and boys aged 5-6 years old in the early childhood level 2 in academic year 2017, at Dongthab School, Khongjiam, Ubon Ratchathani. The research was designed as one group pretest-posttest design with purposive sampling selection. A total of the experiments were 20 times divided to four weeks, five days a week with 30 minutes a day. The instruments for data collection were the science activities plan for early childhood students and the ability in problem solving test for the early childhood students. The Index of Item-Objective Congruence of the test was at 0.67-1.00 and its reliability was 0.80. Statistical analysis included the mean, standard deviation, and Sample paired t-test.

The research findings were as follows : The overall of early childhood students who participated in Science activities had more the problem solving ability than its at before their participation with the statistical significant at .01 level. Therefore, the particular of problem solving ability such as problem solving without others, problem solving with others, problem solving of others who related with students, and problem solving of others by students, there revealed that these problem solving ability of students at after had higher its at before their participations with the statistical significant at .01 level.