Effects of the Co-operative Learning Using Student-Teams Achievement Divisions Technique on Learning Achievement and Attitude toward Social Studies, Religion and Culture of Prathomsuksa 6 Students The Nonthaburi Educational Office Area 2

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to compare learning achievement in the learning area of the Social Studies, Religion and Culture of Pratomsuksa 6 students between the student who learned through Co-operative Learning using Student-Teams Achievement Divisions technique (STAD) and the traditional activities and 2) to compare the attitude toward Social Studies, Religion and Culture of the students who learned through Cooperative Learning activities using STAD technique and the traditional activities. The sample groups were cluster sampling from Pratomsuksa 6 students at Watladpladuk School under Nonthaburi Educational Office Area 2, Bangbuathong district, Nonthaburi provice in the second semester of academic year 2012. The students were assigned into 2 groups: the experimental group consisted of 47 students learned through cooperative learning using STAD technique while and the control group consisted of 47 students learned through traditional activities. The experiment took 16 hours. The research instruments comprised of lesson plan for learning activities using STAD technique and traditional activities, achievement test and attitude test.  The data were analyzed my mean, standard deviation and t-test for independent samples.

 The results of this research revealed that: 1) Learning achievement in Social Studies, Religion and Culture of the experimental group who learned through Cooperative Learning activities using STAD technique was statistically higher than the control group who learned through the traditional activities at 0.01 level. 2) Attitude toward learning in Social Studies, Religion and Culture of the experimental group who learned through Cooperative Learning using STAD technique was statistically higher than the control group who learned through the traditional activities at 0.01 level.