Development of Skills of the Digital Instructional Media Creation for Teacher Students to Enhance Learning in Technology of the Students in Surin Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop skills of the digital instructional media creation for teacher students and 2) to study the technology learning results from using the digital instructional media of the students in Surin Province. The target group consisted of 1) 20 teacher students studying in the third year of the information and technology program selected by purposive sampling and 2) 73 students studying in the 5^th grade at the schools in the areas of Salakdai Sub-District, Muang District, Surin Province selected by purposive sampling. The research instruments were 1) an evaluation form used to evaluate the skills to create the digital instructional media, 2) an evaluation form used to evaluate the quality of the digital instructional media, 3) digital instructional media, and 4) a test for knowledge. The statistics used were descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation, and comparison on the means of the learning results by using dependent sample t-test.

       The research findings were found as follows.

1. The overall of the findings of the evaluation on the skills of the digital instructional media creation for teacher students in 7 aspects by using the criteria to evaluate in the 7 levels based on the Simson’s psychomotor domain behavior theory in 7 aspects from 3 times of the evaluation had the total scores higher continually for all of the students. When the mean score of the students’ scores from the last evaluation was considered, the findings showed that the mean score was 5.18 which meant that the skills were quite high. The high skills referred to the skillful action or the steps to practice the action until it can be done skillfully.
2. The findings of the technology learning management from using the digital instructional media of the students in Surin Province showed that the mean score of the learning achievement after learning was higher than that before learning with the statistical significance at the level of .05.