Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to compare the Dharma query skills score between two groups of students who learned Vipatchawat thinking and used reflective learning blogs with the guiding sentences and with questions based on Vipatchawat thinking, and 2) to compare the relative growth score of Dharma query skills of students after learning Vipatchawat thinking and using reflective learning blogs with the guiding sentences and with questions based on Vipatchawat thinking. The samples were 29 novice monks from eleventh grade of the Pali Triam Udom Suksa School, Dharma ecclesiastical school, under Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The quasi-experimental research design was conducted; the samples were divided into 2 groups during 8 weeks. Both groups studied 7-step of Vipatchawat thinking and wrote reflective learning blogs. The first group, 15 novice monks, used the blogs with guiding sentences based on Vipatchawat thinking while the second group, 14 novice monks, used blogs with the questions based on Vipatchawat thinking. Research instruments were 1) The 8-week of lesson plans, 2) Social learning platform, Edmodo, 3) the foundation of Dharma disciplines test, and 4) reflective learning Blog writing criteria based upon Vipatchawat thinking 5) the Greenlaw-DeLoach Taxonomy of Critical Thinking. One-way ANOVA and relative growth were utilized for statistical analysis. The research findings were as follows: 1) There was found different at the .05 level of significance between reflective learning blog with the questions and guiding sentences and reflective learning blogs with the questions only upon the Dharma query skills. 2) While the relative growth score of overall of 8-week lesson plans and the first phase (week 1th-4th) of learning based upon Vipatchawat thinking showed different at the .05 level of significance. In the second phase (week 5th-8th), there was no significant difference on the relative growth score between the reflective learning blogs with the questions and guiding sentences and reflective learning blogs with the questions only.