Effects of organizing community of philosophical inquiry activity on critical thinking and science learning achievement of the upper secondary school students, Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
This study was a quasi-experimental research. The purposes of this study were 1) compare critical thinking of students between before and after participating in community of philosophical inquiry activity 2) to compare critical thinking of students between groups participating and not participating in community of philosophical inquiry activity 3) to study the science learning achievement of students after participating in community of philosophical inquiry activity 4) to compare science learning achievement of students between groups participating and not participating in community of philosophical inquiry activity. The samples were mathayom suksa five students of Rajinibon School, Bangkok at academic year 2004. The samples were divided into two groups with 30 students in each group: an experimental group which was participating in community of philosophical inquiry activity and a comparative group which was not participating in above activity. The research instruments were 1) critical thinking test with reliability at 0.71 and 2) science learning achievement test with reliability at 0.61. The collected data were analyzed by means of arithmetic mean, mean of percentage, standard deviation and t-test. The research findings were summarized as follows: 1. After the experiment, an experimental group had critical thinking score higher than before the experiment at 0.05 level of significance. 2. After the experiment, an experimental group had critical thinking score higher than a comparative group at 0.05 level of significance. 3. After the experiment, an experimental group had the average score of science learning achievement at 80 percent which was higher than the criterion score set at 70 percent. 4. After the experiment, an experimental group had science learning achievement score higher than a comparative group at 0.05 level of significance.