USING THE SCIENCETIFIC MODELS TO PROMOTE ANALYTICAL THINKING ABILITY AND LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM OF GRADE 9TH STUDENTS

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Nittaya Thanjai
Wissanu Sutthiwan
Tanwarat Pinthong

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This study aimed to compare students’ learning achievement on the solar system change after learning by using the scientific models with criteria of 80% and to explore their development of an analytical thinking ability after learning by using these models. The sample selected by using cluster random sampling was forty-nine, grade 9 students at the secondary public school in Bangkok, where the researcher was working as an in-service teacher in the 2nd semester in the academic year 2019. The research instruments consist of learning plans, the learning achievement test, and the analytical thinking ability test. The reliability of the achievement test was .81, and the analytical thinking ability test was .84. A total score of each student, mean score, standard deviations, percentages, and the analytical thinking ability’s gain scores were employed to analyze data.  Results of this study revealed that by the end of the using the scientific models, Most students (91.83%) had learning achievement scores at an average of 25.36 3.27 with higher than the specified criteria of 80 percent, and they indicated a high-level of analytical thinking ability’s gain scores (78.70 percent).

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