THE DEVELOPMENT OF THINKING SKILLS BASED ON YONISOMANASIKAN IN BUDDHIST STUDIES COURSE FOR GRADE 12

Abstract

          The purpose of this study were 1) to develop learning activities through 10 thinking skills based on Yonisomanasikan in Buddhism subject 2) to evaluate 10 thinking skills based on Yonisomanasikan 3) to investigate the effectiveness index through Yonisomanasikan learning activities 4) to study the achievement of the Grade 12 students through Yonisomanasikan learning activities and 5) to study the satisfaction of the students towards Yonisomanasikan learning activities. The sample of this study was 29 students of Grade 12 who were studying at Muaklek Wittaya School, Saraburi Province in the first semester of the academic year 2018, based on cluster sampling. The research instrument were 1) 9 learning units with 10 Yonisomanasikan thinking activities at the highest level with mean scores 4.51 2) 10 Yonisomanasikan thinking evaluation from 10 Yonisomanasikan thinking skill evaluation based on the consistency of 0.67-1.00 3) the students’ learning achievement test in Buddhism subject with the difficulty (p) from 0.26-0.80 with discrimination (r) from 0.20-0.50 validity and the reliability was 0.91 4) the questionnaire for the students’ satisfaction towards Yonisomanasikan learning activities is reliability at 0.72. The statistics used for analyzing the collected data were the effectiveness index, percentage, mean, and standard deviation.
          The research found that 1) the result of development learning activities through 10 Yonisomanasikan thinking skill in Buddhism subject completed 9 learning units with 26 lesson plans 2) the 10 Yonisomanasikan thinking skills evaluation in Buddhism subject, most of the students had good level ability mean score at 2.60-3.00 3) the effective index of Yonisomanasikan learning activities was 0.75 indicated that students’ knowledge development increased 75 percent 4) most of students‘ learning achievement was in the best level and 5) the students’ satisfaction towards Yonisomanasikan learning activities as a whole was at the highest level ( = 4.58)