A construction and efficiency validation of an integrated instructional package on basic power electronics application for electronic circuits and devices Vocational Certificate Curriculum of Vocational Education Commission
Abstract:
This research aimed to construct and to validate the efficiency of an integrated instructional package on Basic power electronics application for Electronic circuits and devices in Electrical Power Program of Vocational Certificate, the Electrical Department. The constructed instructional package consists of teachers handbook, instruction medias, exercises and test of the topics of basic power electronics application . Samples were 16 students registered in the second semester of academic year 2009 at electrical department, Bangkok polytechnic college. They did the pre-test before taking the course and
worked on the exercises after each unit then the post-test. The scores were computed for its efficiency. Finally, the learning achievement by using t-test. The results showed that this instructional package had efficiency as 76.56/73.54 which was lower than criteria 80/80. However, the statistic significant was different of .01 and the post-test scores were higher than the pre-test scores.