Effects of Digital Learning Television (DLTV) for High School Students in the Area of Social Studies, Religions and Cultures, the Subject of Religion, Morality, Ethics

Abstract

The objectives of this research are 1) to make a comparison between the pre and posttest learning outcomes of students in grades 4–6 through the Digital Learning Television (DLTV) program, in the areas of social studies, religions and cultures and 2) to study the satisfaction of students in grades 4 - 6 toward the DLTV program. The samples included 25 students in grades 4-6, at Wat Wang Fai Mai School, Rao Ton Chan District, Sukhothai province. They were conducted by way of using Purposive Sampling technique. The research tools were 1) Digital Learning Television (DLTV) video media, covering ten stories, in areas of social studies, religions, and cultures. 2) Pretest and posttest 3) questionnaire on students' satisfaction toward DLTV media. The statistics used in this research were mean (), percentage (%), standard deviation (S.D.) and t-test dependent (t-test). The result showed that 1) the students in grades 4-6 had increased their learning outcome through the DLTV program, on average by 7.28 points higher than those in pretest ( =  14.52, 21.80) which was statistically significant at the level of .05 2) the satisfaction of students in grades 4-6 toward the program was in the highest level by overall at the average of 4.85 ( = 4.85 and S.D. = 0.25) which was 96.94 percent with satisfaction value including image use and image sequencing, the size of the letters, the content, and the language used in this video. Moreover, this video provided the greatest understanding of the subjects studied at =5.00 and S.D.=0.00.