Effects of social studies instruction based on Trisikkha principle on learning achievement, critical thinking ability, and sufficiency lifestyles of eighth grade students
Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study the learning achievement, critical thinking, and sufficiency lifestyles of eighth grade students who learned social studies instruction based on trisikkha principle. The subjects were one hundred and three students of eighth grade from Prakret Secondary School. They were divided into two groups: an experimental group composed of fifty two students and a control group compose of fifty one students. The experimental instruments consisted of two sets of lesson plans: daily lesson plans based on trisikkha principle activities and daily lesson plans based on conventional method activities. Duration of experiment was eight weeks which consisted of two periods per week and fifty minutes per period. The data collecting instruments consisted of learning achievement test, critical thinking test, and sufficiency lifestyles evaluation form. The data were analyzed by arithmetic mean ( ), standard deviation (S.D.) and compare the data by t-test. The results of this research were as follows: 1. The students who learned social studies instruction based on trisikkha principle activities had higher learning achievement than students who learned social studies instruction based on conventional method activities at 0.05 level of significance. 2. The students who learned social studies instruction based on trisikkha principle activities had higher critical thinking ability than pre-experiment and had higher critical thinking ability than students who learned social studies instruction based on conventional method activities at 0.05 level of significance. 3. The students who learned social studies instruction based on trisikkha principle activities had higher sufficiency lifestyles than pre-experiment and had higher sufficiency lifestyles than students who learned social studies instruction conventional method activities at 0.05 level of significance.