Effects of Davies' Model of Practical Skills and STAD Cooperative Learning on Learning Achievement of Lotus Dance Unit of Mathayom Suksa 1 Students

Abstract

The method of teaching folk dancing should not be stereotyped, but simplified and encouraging to avoid the students’ boredom, to increase their learning achievement as well as their cooperation, one of the necessary 21 century skills. The purposes of this research were 1) to study the effects of Davies’ Model of Practical Skills and STAD cooperative learning technique on the learning achievements of the Lotus Dance unit of Grade 7 students, 2) to study the learning achievement of this Dance Unit as compared to the school’s target criteria of 75 percent. This research is quasi-experimental with one-group, pre-test–post test design. The research results revealed that the use of Davies’ Model of Practical Skills and STAD cooperative learning technique greatly enhanced the students’ learning achievement of the Lotus Dance unit. Their learning achievement increased from the mean score of 14.17 to 23.59 with statistical significance at the .01 level. In addition, the learning achievement was significantly higher than 75 percent of the school’s target criteria at the .05 level. Indeed, the use of Davies’ Model of Practical Skills and STAD cooperative learning technique had effective effcts on the students’ learning achievement of the Lotus Dance unit.

Keywords: Davies’ Model of Practical Skills, STAD cooperative learning

technique, Learning achievement, Lotus Dance learning unit.