The Effects of Using Online Guidance Activities Package Based on Rational Emotive Behavior Theory to Develop Learning Aspect of Growth Mindset in Grade 7 - 9 Students, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were (1) to compare the growth mindset of learning of students before and after using an online guidance activities package; and (2) to compare the growth mindset of learning of the students who used the online guidance activities package with the counterpart level of the students who undertook normal guidance activities.

         The research sample consisted of 14 lower secondary students who had low learning achievement during the academic year 2021 at a school in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, obtained by purposive selection and voluntary sampling. Then they were randomly assigned into an experimental group and a control group each of which containing 7 students. The employed research tools were (1) an online guidance activities package based on the rational emotive behavior theory, (2) a set of normal guidance activities, and (3) a scale to assess growth mindset of learning, with reliability coefficient of .93.  Statistics employed for data analysis were the median, inter-quartile range, Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test, and Mann-Whitney U test.

         The research findings showed that (1) after the experiment with using the online guidance activities package, the experimental group students’ growth mindset of learning level was significantly higher than their growth mindset of learning level  before using the online guidance activities package at the .01 level of statistical significance; and (2) the growth mindset of learning level the experimental group students who used the online guidance activities package was significantly higher than the counterpart level of the control group students who undertook normal guidance activities at the .05 level of statistical significance.