The Development of Problem-based Learning Activities; General Law Course Related to Career for Students at the Diploma Level

Abstract

Advances in technology have led to changes in curriculum content along with the development of new skills required for the 21st century. Organizing teaching and learning activities in the general law course about professional work, the researcher selected teaching activities using Problem-based learning or PBL. Thus, the purposes of this research were to (1) To develop problem-based learning activities for vocational students effectively according to the 80/80 criteria (2) to compare the learning achievement before and after learning the problem-based learning activities, and (3) to study the students' satisfaction with learning with the problem-based learning activities. The sample group consisted of students at the advanced vocational certificate level in the field of automotive mechanics, at Maha Sarakham Technical College who were studying in the second semester of the academic year 2021 total of 42 students by using a base-specific randomization methodใ The instruments used in this study were 6 lesson plans, an achievement test, and a questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test (Dependent Samples). The results showed that (1) Problem-based learning activities for students at the Diploma level, an efficiency of 80.14/82.83 satisfies the set criteria. (2) the students have academic achievement through problem-based learning activities After studying, it was higher than before learning at the statistical significance level of .05. And (3) the satisfaction with problem-based learning activities developed for students at the Diploma level The overall mean was at a high level.