DEVELOPING CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH SCENARIO-BASED LEARNING USING GENERATIVE AI

Abstract

The purposes of this research study were to 1) compare the learning achievement of students before and after the course, 2) evaluate the creative thinking skills of students, and 3) study the satisfaction of students learning through a simulated situation using Generative AI. The sample group consisted of 8 students from the Robotics and Automation Engineering program at Si Songkhram Industrial Technology College, Nakhon Phanom University, who were enrolled in the "Creative Thinking and Problem Solving" course. The research instruments included 1) Lesson plan and 2) A 30-item achievement test covering four lessons. It was validated for content by three experts with a reliability of 0.81 and a difficulty index (p) ranging from 0.25 to 0.78, which is within an appropriate range. 3) A 20-item creative thinking skills assessment, comprising four main aspects: Originality, Flexibility, Fluency, and Elaboration. The assessment was validated for content by three experts with an Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) ranging from 0.67 to 1.00 and a reliability of 0.89. and 4) A 10-item student satisfaction questionnaire. It was validated for content by three experts with an Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) ranging from 0.80 to 1.00 and a reliability of 0.90. The statistical methods used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

The research findings were as follows: 1) the post-test learning achievement in creative thinking skills had an average score of 26.50 out of 30 points, equivalent to 88.33%. This was significantly higher than the 60% criterion at a statistical significance level of 0.05, 2) for creative thinking skills, the students achieved an average score of 21.75 for Originality (87.00%), 22.17 for Fluency (88.68%), 20.83 for Flexibility (83.32%), and 19.42 for Elaboration (77.68%), all of which were at a "very good" level, and 3) the overall student satisfaction had an average score of 4.58 with a standard deviation of 0.51.