A Study of the Needs for Learning Management to Enhance the Analytical Thinking Skills of the Elementary School Students

Abstract

This research project aimed to study the needs of developing teachers’ learning management skills to enhance the analytical thinking skills among elementary school students. The samples were 244 teachers teaching elementary school students in 4^th – 6^th grades and working under the Office of Kamphaengphet Primary Educational Service Area 1. The samples’ size was specified using Krejcie and Morgan’s method by using the Stratified Random Sampling technique. The data were collected by using a questionnaire and  analyzed and quantified for the level of need by using the Priority Needs Index and the Modified Needs Index technique. The results were as follows: There were 5 aspects of the needs to develop the analytical thinking skills among elementary school students, the aspect with the highest level of needs was “application” (PNI_modified = 0.287), followed by “categorization” (PNI_modified = 0.257), “relation” (PNI_modified = 0.252), “summarization” (PNI_modified = 0.195), and “classification” (PNI_modified = 0.1914) respectively.