A Collaborative Writing-based Approach using Cloud Applications Approach to Enhance Academic Report Writing Abilities of Secondary Students
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The purposes of this study were to 1) compare the academic report writing abilities of students who were instructed by a collaborative writing-based approach using cloud applications before and after the experiment including the result both overall and in separate components, and 2) analyze the improvement in students’ academic writing abilities. The population consisted of 520 students seventh-grade students in an extra-large all-girls school in Bangkok. The sample group comprised 40 seventh-grade students, selected using a purposive sampling method. The research instruments included an achievement test for evaluating academic writing abilities, an individual academic writing abilities reflection form, and lesson plans designed according to a collaborative writing-based instruction using cloud applications. The data were analyzed quantitatively using the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and t-test, and qualitatively by analyzing the improvement in academic report writing abilities.
The research findings were as follows: 1) Students who were instructed by collaborative writing-based approach using cloud application approach got post-test scores higher than pre-test scores both overall and separated components at the .05 level of significant. 2) There was improvement in academic report writing abilities in the last step of writing, which is better than the first step.
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