The Development of scientific Process Skills and Academic Achievement About our Local Soil by Using STEM Learning Management of Students in Grade 2

Abstract

          The objectives of this research were 1) to develop scientific process skill of grade 2 students using STEM Education Learning Management so that the students made a mean score of 70% or higher and that 70% of the student group passed the criterion and 2) to develop grade 2 students’ learning achievement using STEM Education LearningManagement so that the student group made a mean achievement score of 70% or higher and that 70% of the students passed the criterion. The Action Research Model was being applied to the experiment. The target group consisted of 30 grade 2 students in Pornpradit Kindergarten School in Nong Grungsi Sub-district, Nong Gungsi District, Galasindh Province, who were purposively selected during the second semester of the 2020 school year. Research instruments included 3 categories of 1) 6 lesson plans in the subject of soil in our locality basing on the STEM Learning Management which took 12   instructional periods to finish, 2) a 20-item objective test with 3 choices in the subject of soil in our locality for testing the students’ scientific process skill and 3) a 20-item, 3-choiceobjective testin the subject of soil in our localityfor evaluating the students’ learning achievement.
          Results of the study show that:
          1. The students made a mean achievement score of 15.54 or 78.17% of the full marks in scientific process skill, and 27 students or 90% of the group passed the 70% criterion which are higher than the prescribed criterion.
          2. The students made a mean learning achievement of 16.06 or 80.83% of the full marks, and 28 students or 93.33% of the group passed the 70% criterion which are higher than The prescribed criterion.