EFFECTS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MANAGEMENT ON ARTIFACTS FROM LOCAL MATERIALS AFFECTING PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S COMPUTATIONAL THINKING ABILITIES, BANKOKSAI SCHOOL, PHETCHABUN PROVINCE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the relationships of preschool children’s computational thinking abilities before and after implementation of project-based learning management on artifacts from local materials; and 2) compare preschool children’s computational thinking abilities before and after implementation of project-based learning management on artifacts from local materials. The population consisted of 10 preschool children, boys and girls, aged between 5 - 6 years, studied in Kindergarten year 3 in the 1st semester of the academic year 2024 at Bankoksai School, Na Pa Sub-district, Mueang Phetchabun District, Phetchabun Province. The instruments were 32 project-based learning management on artifacts from local materials lesson plans with an IOC between 0.67 - 1.00 and preschool children’s computational thinking abilities test 20 items which had IOC of 1.00 for all items. and the reliability using the Kuder-Richardson was at 0.94. The statistics used to analyze data were population mean, standard deviation and Chi-square test.
The research results revealed that: 1) preschool children’s computational thinking abilities before and after implementation of project-based learning management on artifacts from local materials, relationships exist in overall aspects at the statistical significance level of .05; and 2) preschool children’s computational thinking abilities after implementation of project-based learning management on artifacts from local materials was higher than before the experiment in overall and each aspect.