The Development of Learning Activities by Socio-Scientific Issue (SSI) for Enhancing the Environmental Learning of Mathayomsuksa 3 Students

Abstract

           The purposes of this study were 1) to create and determine the effectiveness of Learning Activities by Socio-Scientific Issue (SSI) to enhance environmental literacy for  grade 9 students according to the criteria of 75/75, 2) to compare the environmental literacy on the environment before and after learning with the proposed learning method. This research applied the research and development process. The sample group was 40 Mathayom 3.2 students at Phitsanulok Pittayakhom School, semester 2, academic year 2022, obtained by cluster random sampling. Research tools used in the research include 1) learning activities by Socio-Scientific Issue (SSI), 2) environmental literacy test. A single group experimental design was used to one group pretest posttest design. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, percentage, and independent t-test.
           The research results showed that
           1) Learning activities by Socio-Scientific Issue (SSI) to enhance environmental literacy for 9th grade students there are 6 stages of development: 1) Topic Introduction 2) Challenging Core Beliefs 3) Group Activity 4) comprehension inspection 5) Summary the concept 6) Knowledge and Reasoning Assessment with an efficiency of 77.25/76.72, which meets the specified criteria.
           2) It was also found that the students learning with Socio-Scientific Issue (SSI) having environmental literacy in terms of knowledge, awareness and behavior after learning with the proposed learning method, a level of significance of .05.