The development of learning activities to promote learning achievement in Thai for communication using the concept of contemplative education supplemented by social engineers for undergraduate students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) develop learning activities to enhance learning achievement in Thai language for communication according to contemplative education with social engineers for undergraduate students to meet the standard efficiency index set at 80/80. 2) compare the learning achievement of students before and after taking the treatment, and 3) study the students' satisfaction with learning activities.

            The research instruments were learning activity packages, a learning achievement test, and a satisfaction assessment form. The sample group in this research consisted of 50 students enrolled in the first semester of the academic year 2022 in a Thai language for communication course, selected by the cluster sampling method. The statistics used to analyze the collected data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and descriptive statistics.

            The results of this research indicated that: 1) the effectiveness of learning activities was found to be at the effectiveness standard of 82.63/81.89. 2) The posttest of the learning achievement was higher than the pretest at a significant level of.05, and 3) the students' satisfaction with learning activities was at a high level (M = 4.44, SD = 0.06)