THE EFFECTS OF INQUISITIVE LEARNING MANAGEMENT INTEGRATING CONCEPTUAL MAPPING AND KWL TECHNIQUES IN THE TOPIC OF EARTH AND CHANGES ON SCIENCES LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT AND ANALYTICAL THINKING ABILITY OF MATHAYOM SUKSA II STUDENTS AT BAN KHONGPAKKHOM SCHOOL IN SA KAEO PROVINCE

Abstract

This research aimed to compare, first, sciences learning achievement of Mathayom Suksa II students at Ban Khlong Phakkhom School who employed inquisitive learning management integrating conceptual mapping and KWL techniques with                 75-percent learning achievement; and second, the analytical thinking abilities of Mathayom Suksa II students before and after employing inquisitive learning management integrating conceptual mapping and KWL techniques. The research sample consisted of one class with twenty-four students during the second semester of the 2019 academic year. The sample were selected by cluster sampling. There were three research instruments. The first was ten lesson plans of learning topic entitled Earth and Changes using the inquisitive learning management integrating conceptual mapping and KWL techniques. The average rating scale from the experts’ evaluation showed excellent-level result of = 4.58, S.D. = 0.01. The second was an achievement test for the learning topic entitled Earth and Changes. Its difficulty (p) was 0.36-0.56, its discrimination was 0.20 - 0.47 and its validity was 0.82.  The third were the analytical thinking ability pretest and posttest.  Pre and posttest difficulty (p) were 0.44-0.50 and 0.43-0.50, their discriminations were 0.27-0.47 and 0.0.27-0.60, and their validity were 0.75 and 0.81. The mean, standard deviation, and t-test were used for data analysis. 

          The research findings statistically showed that (1) the students’ learning achievement on sciences employing the inquisitive learning management integrating conceptual mapping and KWL techniques was significantly higher than the defined criteria of 75 percent at .05; and (2) the students’ analytical thinking abilities employing the inquisitive learning management integrating conceptual mapping and KWL techniques was significantly higher at .05.