THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUMMARY WRITING ABILITY OF STUDENTS IN PRATHOMSUKSA 6 USING ACTIVE LEARNING

Abstract

The purposes of this experimental research were to 1) compare the 6^th-grade students’ abilities to write a summary before and after learning with active learning management; 2) study the opinions of the 6^th-grade students towards active learning management. The research sample was 17 students studying in the second semester of the academic year 2022 at Wat Saseeliam School, Don Tum District, Nakhon Pathom Province Under the Nakhon Pathom Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. They were obtained by cluster random sampling. The research instruments used consisted of lesson plans, an ability test on summary writing, an opinionnaire, and a one group pretest-posttest experimental design plan. The statistics used for data analysis were arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

The research findings were as follows:

1. The ability to write a summary of the 6^th-grade students after learning with active learning management was higher than the pretest with statistical significance level of .05.


2. Overall, the opinion of the 6^th-grade students towards active learning management was at a high level. When considering each aspect, all aspects were at a high level. The aspects, ranked in descending order, were 1) content, 2) activities, and 3) benefits gained.