A Study of Learning Achievement on the Literature Critical Thinking Unit and Analytical Thinking of Twelfth Grade Students through the Six Thinking Hat Method

Abstract

       This research was a pre-experimental design research and the purpose were to 1) compare learning achievement on the literature critical thinking unit of 12^th grade students before and after using six thinking hats method 2) compare learning achievement after the lessons integrated with six thinking hats method with the criterion 70 per cent 3) compare students’ analytical thinking skill before and after using six thinking hats method 4) study learning retention on learning achievement after learned through the six thinking hats method and 5) study learning retention on students’ analytical thinking after the lessons integrated with the six thinking hats method. The research samples were 41 12^th grade students form Lamplaimat School, Amphoe Lamplaimat, Buriram Provincein in second semester of the academic year 2018 selected by cluster random sampling. The instruments of this study consisted of 6 learning lesson plans 12 hour, learning achievement tests about literature critical thinking and analytical thinking tests were implemented and analyzed by percentage, average, standard deviation and t-score. The study revealed that; 1) After learning through the six thinking hats method, students’ learning achievement was higher than before using the method at the .05 level of significance. 2) Students’ learning achievement was higher than 70 percent criteria at the .05 level of significance. 3) The analytical thinking skill of after using the six thinking hats method was higher than before at the statistical significance of .05. 4) The learning retention of learning achievement was not a significant difference at the .05 level. 5) The learning retention of student’ analytical thinking was a significant difference at the .05 level.