DEVELOPING CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS BY USING THE PWIM IMAGE-BASED CREATIVE THINKING TEACHING MODEL COMBINED WITH CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS EXERCISES OF STUDENTS IN GRADE 5 AT BAN DON DUA SCHOOL, BAN KHOK SUB-DISTRICT, SANGKHOM DISTRICT, UDON THANI PROVINCE

Abstract

The purposes of this study aimed to 1) develop a lesson plan of Thai language courses on creative writing of students in Grade 5 using the PWIM image-based creative thinking teaching model combined with creative writing skills training., 2) to compare the creative writing achievement before and after learning of 5^th grade students from using the lesson plan of Thai language course on creative writing and a creative thinking teaching model using PWIM images combined with creative writing skills exercises. To be effective according to the criteria of 65/65., the sample group in the research was 8 students in fifth grade at Ban Don Dua School, Ban Khok Sub-district, Sang Khom District, Udon Thani Province which were derived from specific selection. The implement used for the data collection consisted of 1) 5 lesson plans for teaching creative thinking using PWIM images together with creative writing skills exercises., 2) the subjective test for Pre-test and Post-test 1st edition. The data was analyzed by percentage, means, standard deviation and t-test.

The results of the research were found that 1) fifth grade students had creative writing skills from using the lesson plans of Thai language course on creative writing and a creative thinking teaching model using PWIM images combined with creative writing skills exercises. The post – test scores was higher than first checking at 67.50/69.57 2) The results of comparing achievement found that post – test scores was higher than their Pre-test scores at the .001 level of statistical significance.