Study of Thinking Skills and Academic Achievement S 32104 Social Studies, Religion and Culture on Sufficiency Economy with the Lesson Study and Open Approach of the Mathayomsuksa 5 Students of the Demonstration School, Prince of Songkla University

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study student’s thinking skills, learning achievement, and satisfaction after learning through Lesson Study and Open Approach lessons. By purposive sampling, simple was a group of Mathayomsuksa 5 included 40 students of Prince of Songkla University, Secondary Demonstration School in academic year of 2019. The instruments used for this research included lesson plan, thinking skill’s observation form, achievement test, satisfaction questionnaire of students on toward Sufficiency Economy. Tools for recording student behavior, consisted of a field record, student interview form and post-learning record. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, validity, difficulty, discrimination, reliability and t-test dependent.

The research found that 1) Students had average thinking skills at 96.39 with the highest critical thinking skills (97.32%) and creative thinking skills (96.88%), synthetic thinking skills (95.83%) and analytical thinking skills (95.54%)followed by order.2)Students had higher learning achievement with the average scores after learning more than before at the significant level of 0.01. 3) Students were satisfied with learning by Open Approach at a high level (4.25) and standard deviation (S.D.) was 0.72.