Abstract:
The purposes of these research were 1) To develop virtual field trip with community based learning to enhance civic engagement of upper secondary school students, 2) to try out and 3) to propose a model. The subjects in the development consisted experts including social studies teaching experts, educational technology experts, community experts and curriculum expert. The subjects in model experiment were 111 upper secondary school students. The research instruments consisted of and expert interview form, a model evaluation form, learning website and a lesson plan. The data collection instruments comprised: a civic engagement test, and student's satisfaction toward the model test questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The research results were as follows: The developed model consisted of 3 components including: (1) Students, (2) Teacher and (3) People in community. Steps of virtual field trip with community based learning consisted 5 steps as follows: (1) Exploring, (2) Experience improvement, (3) Problems analysis, (4) Innovation and (5) Presentation and reflection. The experimental result indicated that the subjects had civic engagement post-test mean scores higher than pre-test at .05 level of significance.