Abstract:
The aims of this research were to develop the enhancement of attention based on NLP program for primary school students, and to examine the effectiveness of the enhancement of attention based on NLP program for primary school students. The sample consisted of 52 grade 4th-6th elementary students at BANPLAIKHLONG 20 School, Chachoengsao province. The sample was 52 people selected by the use of PEBL Attention Network Test (PANT) reaction time. The score sample was randomly assigned into two groups: experimental and control group. Each group consisted of 26 students. The research instruments were 1) The enhancement of attention based on NLP program for primary school students, which was developed by the researcher, 2) PEBL Attention Network Test (PANT), 3) The Wisconsin card sorting (WCST-64). The experimental group received the attention enhance program with NLP for primary students. The experiment was lasted for 4 sessions, one session in each week. Each session lasted for 50 minutes. The control group joined the regular schools activities. The assessments were done in 3 phases:
pretest, posttest and follow-up. The data was analyzed by a repeated measures analysis of variance and paired-different test by Bonferroni method.
The results revealed that 1) the interaction between the experimental methodology and the duration of the experiment was found statistically significant at .05 level. 2) The experimental group had the mean score of atttention higher than those in the control group in the post-test and follow-up with statistically significant at .05 level. 3) The experimental group had the mean score of attention in the posttest and follow-up higher than the pretest with statistically significant at .05 level. It was concluded that the attention enhancement program with NLP had the effect on enhancing attention among primary students