Abstract:
The purposes of this study were (1) to develop the programmed instruction on science strands on the topics of living things and the procedure lives for Prathom Suksa five pupils with the determined strandard criteria of 80/80, (2) to compare the learning achievement of the pupils before and after using the programmed instruction.
The samples used in this study were 40 Prathom Suksa five pupils studying in Ban Phosai School, Ubon Ratchathani Educational Region two in the academic year 2010 ; selected through the purposive sampling. The instrument used for the study were the programmed instruction on science strands on the topics of living things and the procedure lives for Prathom Suksa five pupils, and the achievement test made by the researcher with the difficulty indices ranged from 0.20 to 0.80, the discrimination indices ranged from 0.20 to 0.70, and the reliability value of 0.97. The collected data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test.
The research findings were as follows :
1. The programmed instruction was effective and met the determined standard criterion 0f 84.90 / 89.75
2. The learning achievement of the students after using the programmed instruction was significantly higher than that before using the programmed instruction at .01 level of significance.