Development of Argumentation and Analytical Thinking of Mathayomsuksa 3 Students with Different Science Learning Outcomes Who Learned Socioscientific Issues using Mixed Methods Based on the Adapted Brain-Based Learning and the Traditional Learning Approaches
Abstract:
This research aimed to compare effects of learning socioscientific issue using the mixed methods based on the adapted brain-based learning and the traditional learning approaches on argumentation and analytical thinking abilities of 60 Mathayomsuksa 3 students with different science learning outcomes. They were selected from 2 classes, using the cluster random sampling technique, and were divided into 2 groups: the experimental group 1 learned using the mixed methods based on the adapted brain-based learning and the experimental group 2 learned using the traditional learning approach. Instruments for the research included: 1) learning plan socioscientific using the mixed methods based on the adapted brain based learning and the traditional learning approaches, 2) argumentation tests and 3) an analytical thinking test. The collected data were analyzed for testing hypotheses by means of the Paired T-test and the F-test (Two-way MANCOVA and ANCOVA). The research findings found that the students as a whole and as classified according to science learning outcomes who learned the socioscientific issues using the mixed methods based on the adapted brain based-learning and the traditional learning approaches showed developments of argumentation and showed gains in analytical thinking abilities in general and in each aspect from before learning. There were statistical interactions of science learning outcomes with learning model only on analytical thinking abilities as a whole and in the subscale of analysis of relationship, in which the students with high science learning outcomes who learned the socioscientifi c issues using the mixed methods based on the adapted brain-based learning approach had more argumentation abilities and analytical thinking abilities than other group students, and evidenced more analytical thinking abilities as a whole and in each aspect than the counterpart students. However, the students with different science learning outcomes did not show different argumentation abilities.