Effects of designing personal learning environment with virtual agent on English critical reading ability and reading engagement of secondary school students
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the learning outcomes of students English critical reading ability and reading engagement, 2) to compare the experimental group's English critical reading ability and reading engagement before and after the experiment, 3) to compare English critical reading ability and reading engagement between students of the control group and those of the experimental group, and 4) to analyze the Canonical Correlation between English critical reading ability and reading engagement. The samples were 35 students in a control group, and 35 students in an experimental group in two grade 9 classes of Mathayom Wat Nongkhaem School. The research instruments were learning designs, a test, a rubric score for assignment assessment, a self-assessment form, and an assessment form for a teacher. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Dependent and Independent t-test, and Canonical Correlation analysis. The results revealed that: 1) the experimental group had higher average scores of English critical reading ability and reading engagement than before the experiment at .05 level of significance, 2) the experimental group had higher average scores of English critical reading ability than the control group at .05 level of significance, but the reading engagement between two groups were not different, and 3) English critical reading ability correlated with reading engagement at .05 level of significance.