Development of the Learning Activity Packages Based on Social and Scientific Issues Coupled with Inquiry Learning to Compare the Competencies of the Sustainable Coexistence with Nature and Science on the Topic of Materials in Everyday Life for the Ninth Grade Students

Abstract

The objectives of the research were 1) to develop learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning to compare the competencies of the sustainable coexistence with nature and science on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life for the ninth grade students to have the efficiency based on the criterion of 75/75, 2) to compare the competencies of the sustainable coexistence with nature and science of the ninth grade students learning by using learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life, 3) to compare the learning achievement of the ninth grade students learning by using learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life before and after learning, and 4) to study the satisfaction of the ninth grade students towards the learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life in the first semester in the academic year of 2023. The samples were 19 students studying in the ninth grade from Ban Rong Sa-at School under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. They were randomized by cluster sampling. The research instruments were four packages of learning activities based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life, a four-multiple-choice test with 40 items used to measure learning achievement, a test used to evaluate the competencies of the sustainable coexistence with nature and science, and a questionnaire asking for the satisfaction. The statistics used were mean, percentage, standard deviation, and t-test.
The research findings were as follows.
1. The efficiency of the learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life was 78.68/78.42 which met the criterion of 75/75.
2. The competency of the sustainable coexistence with nature and science of the ninth grade students learning by using the learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life after learning was higher than that before learning with the statistical significance at the level of .01.
3. The learning achievement after learning by using the learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life was higher than that before learning with the statistical significance at the level of .01.
4. The mean of the satisfaction of the ninth grade students towards the learning activity packages based on social and scientific issues coupled with inquiry learning on the topic of Materials in Everyday Life in the overall was at the highest level (x̄ = 4.57, S = 0.60).