The Development of Geographical Skills in the Course of SS 2203401 Geographic Information System and Maps with STEM Education Arrangement for the 4th year Students in Social Science Program at Thepsatri Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1. to compare the geographical skills of students who learned with the STEM educational method and the geographical skills of students who learned with the traditional learning method; 2. to compare learning achievement before and after the learning with the STEM educational method; and 3. to study on the students’ satisfaction from learning with the STEM education method in the course of SS 2203401 Geographic Information System and Maps. The samples of the study included 28 students in the 4th-year study of Social Science Program in the 1st semester of 2020 academic year at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Thepsatri Rajabhat University in Lopburi Province. The purposive sampling was used, and the research instruments were lesson plans for learning activity arrangement according to STEM education, a measurement scale of geographical skills, a test of learning achievement, and a measurement scale of learning satisfaction. The data were analyzed into percentage, means, standard deviation, and t-test. The research results revealed that 1. the students who learned with the STEM educational method gained higher geographical skills than the students who learned with the traditional learning method with the statistical significance of .05; 2. the students who learned with the STEM educational method had learning achievement in the posttest higher than their learning achievement in the pre-test with the statistical significance of .05; and 3. the students were satisfied with the STEM educational method in the course of SS 2203401 Geographic Information System and Maps in overall of the 3 aspects at the ‘most’ level (  = 4.61, S.D. = 0.54)