Development of a Training Package on Production of Activity Group Instructional Packages Focusing on Integration among Learning Areas for Primary School Teachers in Nonthaburi Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were as follows: (1) to develop a training package on production of activity group instructional packages focusing on integration among learning areas for primary school teachers in Nonthaburi based on the set of efficiency criterion or (2) to study learning achievement of teachers who were trained with the training package (3) to study the satisfaction of teachers who received training by learning from the training package (4) to study learning achievement of students who learned from activity group instructional packages focusing on integration among learning areas that were produced and tried out by the trained teachers and (5) to study the satisfaction of students who learned from the instructional packages that were produced and tried out by the trained teachers.

                The research process comprised two stages; the first stage was the development of a training package on production of activity group instructional packages focusing on integration among learning areas.  It was composed of the following steps, developing the training program, determining the type of the training package, writing the training plan, producing the training media, verifying quality of the training package, and preliminary trying out the training package.  The preliminary try-out was conducted in the forms of individual try-out, small group try-out, and field try-out with 30 primary school teachers in Nonthaburi province in order to apply results of each try-out for subsequent improvement of the training package.  After that, the training package was experimented with 30 primary school teachers in Nonthaburi province.  The research instruments were a training package, a learning achievement test for pre-testing and post-testing, and a questionnaire on teacher’s satisfaction.  In the trial run, three activity group instructional packages focusing on integration among learning areas produced by the trained teachers were selected for experimented with students in the second stage.  The second stage was the experimentation of the selected three group activity instructional packages produced by the trained teachers with three classrooms of Prathom Suksa II, Prathom Suksa III, and Prathom Suksa V students, each of which consisting of 30 students.  All classrooms were in primary schools in Nonthaburi province in which the teachers who produced the instructional packages were teaching.  The research instruments were a learning achievement test for pre-testing and post-testing, and a questionnaire on student’s satisfaction.  Statistics employed for data analysis were the E₁/E₂ efficiency index, t-test, mean, and standard deviation.

                Research findings were as follows: (1) regarding the efficiency of the training package on production of activity group instructional packages focusing on integration among learning areas, its E₁/E₂ efficiency index in the preliminary try-out was 82.38/80.00, while that in the trial run was 80.67/80.33 which met the 80/80 efficiency criterion; (2) the post-training learning achievement of teachers who were trained with the training package was higher than their pre-training counterpart achievement, and their overall satisfaction with the training package was at the high level; and (3) the post-learning achievement of students who learned from the instructional packages produced by the training was higher than their pre-learning counterpart achievement, and their satisfaction was at the highest level.