A DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSROOM-RESEARCH-RELATED LITERATURE WRITING SKILLS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF FACULTY OF EDUCATION, LOEI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY BY USING LEARNING BY DOING

Abstract

The purpose of this research were: 1) to study the result of a development of classroom- research-related literature writing skills of undergraduate students by using learning by doing, 2) to compare the students’ classroom-research-related literature writing skills between after and before using learning by doing, and 3) to compare the students’ classroom-research-related literature writing skills after using learning by doing with the criteria score at 60 percent. The sample obtained through cluster random sampling was 27 undergraduate students enrolled in the course of Research for Learning Development at the Faculty of Education, Loei Rajabhat University in the first semester of academic year 2020. The research instrument was writing skills evaluation test. Quantitative data were analyzed to obtain mean, standard deviation, percentage, percentage of development, and t-test, while qualitative data was analyzed by content analysis.

           The research findings were as follows:

           1) The percentage of development in the students’ classroom-research-related literature writing skills was reported at the range between 33.33 to 63.33. Their writings of the literature were presented with systematic organization and with reference to the sources of information. In addition, the sets of new information on similar knowledge were coherently synthesized and organized with a systematic sequence of content.  

           2) After studying by using learning by doing, the undergraduate students demonstrated higher classroom-research-related literature writing skills than before with the statistical significance at the level of .01.

           3) After studying by using learning by doing, the students’ classroom- research-related literature writing skills were higher than the criteria score at 60 percent with the statistical significance at the level of .01.