The Effects of Using Instructional Package for Practicing English Reading Comprehension Skill through Cooperative Learning Technique CIRC with Mind Mapping of Eighth Grade Students

Abstract

        The purposes of this research were as follows: 1) to study the efficiency of  instructional package for practicing English reading comprehension skill through cooperative learning technique CIRC with Mind Mapping  set 75/75, 2) to compare students learning achievement before and after learning through the instructional package for practicing  English  reading comprehension skill 3) to find out effectiveness index of the package and Mind Mapping 4) to study the students’ satisfaction towards using instructional package and Mind Mapping of 8^th grade students. The samples were 36 students in class 2/1  of  Nongkipittayakom School Selected by using cluster sampling. The instruments used in this study were: 1) the 6 instructional packages 2) lesson plans 3) learning  achievement test 4) the questionnaire. The research results : 1) The efficiency of the instructional package for practicing  English reading comprehension skill was 80.94/83.75 which was higher than the criteria set 75/75. 2) The 8^th grade students had higher achievement after leaning than before learning at the .05 level of statistically significant difference. 3) The effectiveness index equaled 0.6929 which showed that the student’ learning achievement progress was at  69.29% 4) The satisfaction of the 8^th grade students as a whole was  at the high level.