This paper aimed to clarify teachers’ learning about research for enhancing students’ thinking sk... more This paper aimed to clarify teachers’ learning about research for enhancing students’ thinking skills in science learning. The study applied the lens of sociocultural view of learning to discuss teachers’ learning about research. Participants included teachers who participated in the project of thinking research schools: research for enhancing students’ thinking skills. The project of thinking research schools provided participants chance to learn knowledge about research and thinking research, doing research and publication, and participate in the international conference. Methodology regarded ethnographic research. The tools of interpretation included participant observation, interview, and document analysis. The researchers as participants of the research project of thinking research schools tried to clarify what they learned about research from their way of seeing the view of research about enhancing students’ thinking skills through participant observation. The findings revealed what and how teachers...
Water issues, a commonly discussed issue in water STEM education, present students with a challen... more Water issues, a commonly discussed issue in water STEM education, present students with a challenge to put their engineering design skills to the test in a STEM project. This study aimed to enhance and examine Grade 8 students’ creative thinking in the water STEM education learning unit. It involved purposively selected 45 eight-graders enrolled in a school situated in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The study was carried out in three weeks which equate to twelve hours of learning covered in six lesson plans. Applying the interpretive paradigm, this study adapted Barak and Doppelt (2000)’s Creative Thinking Scale (CTS) to assess students’ applying knowledge and creative thinking. The findings likely demonstrated that most of the portfolio elements may be interpreted for the attainment of creative thinking in layer of awareness, while some others could be viewed layers of observation, strategy, and reflection. This paper clarifies what and how students’ project could be interpreted in each laye...
The objective of this study was to investigate students in Grade 9 on scientific reasoning skills... more The objective of this study was to investigate students in Grade 9 on scientific reasoning skills by combining basic learning about advertising. The s amples were 30 students in Grade 9 at Khon Kaen Demonstration Secondary School, Khon Kaen Province. In this study, interpretative paradigm was used to analyze teaching and learning activities aiming at enhancing students’ scientific reasoning skills through advertising as literature. Data were collected from class observation and assignment that reflect students’ scientific reasoning process based on the Four-Phased Approach of Reasoning proposed by Wu [1] that consists of 4 phases: (1) Issues identification as to identify key issues, (2) Clarification as to clarify personal views or attitudes toward issues, (3) Discussion and Defense as to logically present viewpoints and discuss them, and (4) Synthesis and Conclusion. Students were challenged to express their arguments regarding adverting they have exposed to and seek appropriate so...
This study aimed to examine Grade 11 students’ existing ideas of the engineering design process o... more This study aimed to examine Grade 11 students’ existing ideas of the engineering design process on the problem based on fluid and Bernoulli’s principle unit through predict-observe-explain (POE). To promote high school students’ engineering literacy. Participants included 36 Grade 11 students who were studying in Khon Kaen University Demonstration Secondary School (suksasart), organized into 7 groups. Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. The Hynes et.al. (2011) framework of the engineering design process (EDP) was applied as the reference of students’ existing ideas of the engineering design process (EDP) consists of 9 steps including 1) identify need or problem, 2) research need or problem, 3) develop possible solutions, 4) select the best possible solution, 5) construct a prototype, 6) test and evaluate solution, 7) communicate the solution, 8) redesign and 9) completion decision. The question to start with “how the airplane can fly in the air” was the main problem, provide...
The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of the designing Moringa leaf tea. The ST... more The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of the designing Moringa leaf tea. The STEM education learning activity will be developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from identification of social issue of designing the tea from the Moringa leaf that Indonesian people usually eat Moringa leaves as a vegetable. The issue of making a tea from moringa leaf could motivate students to design not only moringa tea but also various favor of teas, label or packaging. Then, the lesson plan will provide activities regarding on the 7 stages of Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education in order to scaffold students to practice knowledge for designing some technology prototypes or products through engineer design process. For making something related to moringa tea, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. These knowledges include chemistry (e.g. t...
Thailand Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has pushed in-service teachers to develop hi... more Thailand Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has pushed in-service teachers to develop his or her competence of organizing STEM education instruction. Another solution of increasing STEM in-service teacher is provide pre-service science teachers to generate their ideas of organizing learning activities and carried out research about STEM education during their teaching practice. This study aimed to examine pre-service science teachers’ conceptions of STEM education. The participants included 10 pre-service science teachers who enrolled school internship course of Khon Kaen University for teaching practice in schools. These participants will be supervised by the author. On the way of supervising, participants have meeting to generate the ideas of STEM education learning activities and research about STEM education on Friday afternoon for every week. Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of STEM education will be interpreted participant ...
The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of designing the simple the water pressur... more The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of designing the simple the water pressure booster pump. The STEM education learning activity will be developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [12] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from identification of social issue of the drought often occurs during the dry season in various regions in Indonesia. The possible solution as the designing simple water pump will be introduced to the students to enhance them to develop the prototypes. Then, the lesson plan will provide activities regarding on the 7 stages of Sutaphan and Yuenyong [12] the context-based STEM education in order to scaffold students to practice knowledge for designing some technology prototypes or products through engineer design process. For making the simple water pressure booster pump, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. That knowledge includes physics (e.g. basic measurement ...
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
History of science (HOS) plays a substantial role in the enhancement of rooted understanding in s... more History of science (HOS) plays a substantial role in the enhancement of rooted understanding in science teaching and learning. HOS of evolution and genetics has not been included in Vietnamese biology textbooks. This study aims to investigate the necessity of introducing evolution and genetics HOS into Vietnamese textbooks. A case study approach integrating both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed. Of total 87 high school teachers, 68.5% were female. The percentage of biology teachers agreed to add HOS of evolution and genetics into the textbooks was 85.1%. The most common reason (73.0%) for agreement was to develop an active classroom in teaching and learning issues related to evolution and genetics. There were 14.9% of teachers did not agree to add HOS of evolution and genetics into textbooks, with the main reason that teachers must spend more time preparing and teaching evolution and genetics. Most of the teachers agreed to add more details about how the scientists...
The paper will clarify the STEM learning activity by tempeh making process, which provides throug... more The paper will clarify the STEM learning activity by tempeh making process, which provides through Sutaphan and Yuenyong context-based STEM education learning approach. This approach consists of 7 stages including (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solution, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, (5) Development of prototype or product, (6) Test and evaluation of the solution, and (7) Socialization and completion decision stage. The Learning Activity will bring students to practice integrated knowledge among chemistry, mathematics, biology, and economics to design their products. The activity may have implications for developing STEM learning activity in schools.
This research aimed to study of status quo and needs for developing STEM education curriculum to ... more This research aimed to study of status quo and needs for developing STEM education curriculum to enhance creative problem solving competency. Methodology includes in-depth interviews and focus group. Target group were 42 stakeholders, including of school principals, science, mathematics, technology teachers, leader teachers of STEM education and students, in 7 schools within Khon Kaen STEM education network. Research instruments are fieldnotes. Data were analyzed by content analysis. Research result was summarized by analytic description. Research results found that 1) teachers organized STEM instruction through STEM club, additional subject, moderate class–more knowledge activities. Moreover, teachers blended the idea of STEM into teaching in mathematics, science and technology. For STEM instruction problems, some activities do not conform to their school context. Additionally, time for organizing STEM activities and budget for producing learning materials are not enough. 2) Teache...
Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an ability that must be achieved by students today because... more Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an ability that must be achieved by students today because this ability is the core of assessment in K13 and also as demand for 21st-century skills. Giving HOTS-based tests is an attempt to explore further the extent to which HOTS is mastered by students in kinematics and also describe cognitive patterns based on student’s HOTS. The method used in this study is descriptive, with an in-depth analysis of student answers. The research subjects were 51 students. The test instrument used consisted of five HOTS questions, which were divided into two analyzing questions, 1 evaluating question and 2 creating questions, has a reliability coefficient of 0.85 with considered high. The results of the study show that the cognitive patterns of students with high HOTS tend to be stable increasing following cognitive levels, for cognitive patterns of students with medium HOTS are having an up and down pattern, while the cognitive patterns of students with low ...
The paper will clarify the ice cream making STEM education learning activities which provide thro... more The paper will clarify the ice cream making STEM education learning activities which provide through Sutaphan nad Yuenyong [11] context based STEM education learning approach. This approach consists of 7 stages including (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solution, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, (5) Development of prototype or product, (6) Test and evaluation of the solution, and (7) Socialization and completion decision stage. Icecream STEM Education Learning Activity will bring students to practice integrated knowledge among chemistry, mathematics, art, and economics in order to design their products of icecream. This may has implication for organizing STEM education in school setting.
The purpose of this study was to learning activities for promoted the concept of engineering desi... more The purpose of this study was to learning activities for promoted the concept of engineering design Grade 10 students’ ideas of engineering design process on the problem based about force and motion. The force and motion unit provided the problem based activities through predict-observe-explain (POE). Participants included 60 Grade 10 students who were studying in Khon Kaen University Demonstration Secondary School (suksasart). Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. The Hynes et.al. (2011) framework of engineering design process (EPD) was applied as reference of students’ existing ideas of engineering design process. The Hynes et.al. (2011) EPD consists of 9 steps including (1) identify need or problem, 2) research need or problem, 3) develop possible solutions, 4) select the best possible solution, 5) construct a prototype, 6) test and evaluate solution, 7) communicate the solution, 8) redesign, and 9) completion decision. The force and motion POE problem based was provided in...
This study aimed to assess the competence of science teacher in teaching secondary science with s... more This study aimed to assess the competence of science teacher in teaching secondary science with spiral progression approach in terms of their knowledge on subject matter, teaching strategies, personality traits and teaching approach. Science teachers in both public and private schools within Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte served as the respondents of this study. The study used questionnaire as methodology and utilized the frequency distribution, correlation coefficient and regression analysis method. The result showed that the profile of the respondents specifically age, tenure and year in teaching science, and salary grade are correlated with science teacher’s competence in knowledge of subject matter. The result also showed that aside from age and tenure rank or position of the respondents is also correlated with the teaching strategies. Length of service correlates only with the personality traits of the respondents. Civil status, years in teaching, highest educational attainm...
The objective of the study was to determine the cognitive attributes, physical aspect and psychos... more The objective of the study was to determine the cognitive attributes, physical aspect and psychosocial aspects of students’ learning environment on their science performance. A total of one thousand one hundred twenty-three Grade 10 science students in six divisions of Region X, Philippines participated in the study. A triangulation technique was applied in which data were obtained from the survey instruments, semi-structured interview, class observation and literature review to ensure the validity and accuracy of the results of the study. This study utilized descriptive correlational and causal comparative research design. The results revealed that students performance in science was of low mastery level with a very satisfactory average grade during elementary, having a satisfactory average of all the science subjects taken from Grade 7 to Grade 9 and with a description of moving towards mastery in their scientific ability of the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) result...
Learning biology through social context local wisdom helps to encourage students to appreciate th... more Learning biology through social context local wisdom helps to encourage students to appreciate the value of what is available in the community. This research has purposed to develop Science Technology and Society (STS) based on Yuenyong, 2006 according the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy (PSE) with science on biodiversity learning activities consist of 5 steps: (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solutions, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, and (5) Socialization stage. In addition, learning activity was used according to PSE that includes three elements: moderation, reasonableness and self-immunity, as well as two conditions which are knowledge and moral. Eleventh grade student from high school in Khon Kaen, Thailand were selected for the study. However, this research is a qualitative research. Focus on interpretive paradigms of phenomena occur in the classroom. It is a way to study and analyze the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy in Bi...
This research aimed to investigate the students’ constructing scientific knowledge about diffusio... more This research aimed to investigate the students’ constructing scientific knowledge about diffusion and osmosis with analogy approach. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling method including 30 Grade 7 students in Yasothonpittayakom School, Muang District, Yasothon Province, Thailand, in second semester of 2014 academic year. Gathering data by semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaire. The data analyses were qualitative analytical techniques. The results of study revealed that almost students held the concept of dissolve to mention diffusion and held the concept of the particulate and the movement of particulate. Their explanations of diffusion and osmosis mentioned various phenomena.
This paper aimed to clarify teachers’ learning about research for enhancing students’ thinking sk... more This paper aimed to clarify teachers’ learning about research for enhancing students’ thinking skills in science learning. The study applied the lens of sociocultural view of learning to discuss teachers’ learning about research. Participants included teachers who participated in the project of thinking research schools: research for enhancing students’ thinking skills. The project of thinking research schools provided participants chance to learn knowledge about research and thinking research, doing research and publication, and participate in the international conference. Methodology regarded ethnographic research. The tools of interpretation included participant observation, interview, and document analysis. The researchers as participants of the research project of thinking research schools tried to clarify what they learned about research from their way of seeing the view of research about enhancing students’ thinking skills through participant observation. The findings revealed what and how teachers...
Water issues, a commonly discussed issue in water STEM education, present students with a challen... more Water issues, a commonly discussed issue in water STEM education, present students with a challenge to put their engineering design skills to the test in a STEM project. This study aimed to enhance and examine Grade 8 students’ creative thinking in the water STEM education learning unit. It involved purposively selected 45 eight-graders enrolled in a school situated in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The study was carried out in three weeks which equate to twelve hours of learning covered in six lesson plans. Applying the interpretive paradigm, this study adapted Barak and Doppelt (2000)’s Creative Thinking Scale (CTS) to assess students’ applying knowledge and creative thinking. The findings likely demonstrated that most of the portfolio elements may be interpreted for the attainment of creative thinking in layer of awareness, while some others could be viewed layers of observation, strategy, and reflection. This paper clarifies what and how students’ project could be interpreted in each laye...
The objective of this study was to investigate students in Grade 9 on scientific reasoning skills... more The objective of this study was to investigate students in Grade 9 on scientific reasoning skills by combining basic learning about advertising. The s amples were 30 students in Grade 9 at Khon Kaen Demonstration Secondary School, Khon Kaen Province. In this study, interpretative paradigm was used to analyze teaching and learning activities aiming at enhancing students’ scientific reasoning skills through advertising as literature. Data were collected from class observation and assignment that reflect students’ scientific reasoning process based on the Four-Phased Approach of Reasoning proposed by Wu [1] that consists of 4 phases: (1) Issues identification as to identify key issues, (2) Clarification as to clarify personal views or attitudes toward issues, (3) Discussion and Defense as to logically present viewpoints and discuss them, and (4) Synthesis and Conclusion. Students were challenged to express their arguments regarding adverting they have exposed to and seek appropriate so...
This study aimed to examine Grade 11 students’ existing ideas of the engineering design process o... more This study aimed to examine Grade 11 students’ existing ideas of the engineering design process on the problem based on fluid and Bernoulli’s principle unit through predict-observe-explain (POE). To promote high school students’ engineering literacy. Participants included 36 Grade 11 students who were studying in Khon Kaen University Demonstration Secondary School (suksasart), organized into 7 groups. Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. The Hynes et.al. (2011) framework of the engineering design process (EDP) was applied as the reference of students’ existing ideas of the engineering design process (EDP) consists of 9 steps including 1) identify need or problem, 2) research need or problem, 3) develop possible solutions, 4) select the best possible solution, 5) construct a prototype, 6) test and evaluate solution, 7) communicate the solution, 8) redesign and 9) completion decision. The question to start with “how the airplane can fly in the air” was the main problem, provide...
The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of the designing Moringa leaf tea. The ST... more The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of the designing Moringa leaf tea. The STEM education learning activity will be developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from identification of social issue of designing the tea from the Moringa leaf that Indonesian people usually eat Moringa leaves as a vegetable. The issue of making a tea from moringa leaf could motivate students to design not only moringa tea but also various favor of teas, label or packaging. Then, the lesson plan will provide activities regarding on the 7 stages of Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education in order to scaffold students to practice knowledge for designing some technology prototypes or products through engineer design process. For making something related to moringa tea, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. These knowledges include chemistry (e.g. t...
Thailand Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has pushed in-service teachers to develop hi... more Thailand Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has pushed in-service teachers to develop his or her competence of organizing STEM education instruction. Another solution of increasing STEM in-service teacher is provide pre-service science teachers to generate their ideas of organizing learning activities and carried out research about STEM education during their teaching practice. This study aimed to examine pre-service science teachers’ conceptions of STEM education. The participants included 10 pre-service science teachers who enrolled school internship course of Khon Kaen University for teaching practice in schools. These participants will be supervised by the author. On the way of supervising, participants have meeting to generate the ideas of STEM education learning activities and research about STEM education on Friday afternoon for every week. Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of STEM education will be interpreted participant ...
The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of designing the simple the water pressur... more The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of designing the simple the water pressure booster pump. The STEM education learning activity will be developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [12] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from identification of social issue of the drought often occurs during the dry season in various regions in Indonesia. The possible solution as the designing simple water pump will be introduced to the students to enhance them to develop the prototypes. Then, the lesson plan will provide activities regarding on the 7 stages of Sutaphan and Yuenyong [12] the context-based STEM education in order to scaffold students to practice knowledge for designing some technology prototypes or products through engineer design process. For making the simple water pressure booster pump, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. That knowledge includes physics (e.g. basic measurement ...
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
History of science (HOS) plays a substantial role in the enhancement of rooted understanding in s... more History of science (HOS) plays a substantial role in the enhancement of rooted understanding in science teaching and learning. HOS of evolution and genetics has not been included in Vietnamese biology textbooks. This study aims to investigate the necessity of introducing evolution and genetics HOS into Vietnamese textbooks. A case study approach integrating both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed. Of total 87 high school teachers, 68.5% were female. The percentage of biology teachers agreed to add HOS of evolution and genetics into the textbooks was 85.1%. The most common reason (73.0%) for agreement was to develop an active classroom in teaching and learning issues related to evolution and genetics. There were 14.9% of teachers did not agree to add HOS of evolution and genetics into textbooks, with the main reason that teachers must spend more time preparing and teaching evolution and genetics. Most of the teachers agreed to add more details about how the scientists...
The paper will clarify the STEM learning activity by tempeh making process, which provides throug... more The paper will clarify the STEM learning activity by tempeh making process, which provides through Sutaphan and Yuenyong context-based STEM education learning approach. This approach consists of 7 stages including (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solution, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, (5) Development of prototype or product, (6) Test and evaluation of the solution, and (7) Socialization and completion decision stage. The Learning Activity will bring students to practice integrated knowledge among chemistry, mathematics, biology, and economics to design their products. The activity may have implications for developing STEM learning activity in schools.
This research aimed to study of status quo and needs for developing STEM education curriculum to ... more This research aimed to study of status quo and needs for developing STEM education curriculum to enhance creative problem solving competency. Methodology includes in-depth interviews and focus group. Target group were 42 stakeholders, including of school principals, science, mathematics, technology teachers, leader teachers of STEM education and students, in 7 schools within Khon Kaen STEM education network. Research instruments are fieldnotes. Data were analyzed by content analysis. Research result was summarized by analytic description. Research results found that 1) teachers organized STEM instruction through STEM club, additional subject, moderate class–more knowledge activities. Moreover, teachers blended the idea of STEM into teaching in mathematics, science and technology. For STEM instruction problems, some activities do not conform to their school context. Additionally, time for organizing STEM activities and budget for producing learning materials are not enough. 2) Teache...
Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an ability that must be achieved by students today because... more Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an ability that must be achieved by students today because this ability is the core of assessment in K13 and also as demand for 21st-century skills. Giving HOTS-based tests is an attempt to explore further the extent to which HOTS is mastered by students in kinematics and also describe cognitive patterns based on student’s HOTS. The method used in this study is descriptive, with an in-depth analysis of student answers. The research subjects were 51 students. The test instrument used consisted of five HOTS questions, which were divided into two analyzing questions, 1 evaluating question and 2 creating questions, has a reliability coefficient of 0.85 with considered high. The results of the study show that the cognitive patterns of students with high HOTS tend to be stable increasing following cognitive levels, for cognitive patterns of students with medium HOTS are having an up and down pattern, while the cognitive patterns of students with low ...
The paper will clarify the ice cream making STEM education learning activities which provide thro... more The paper will clarify the ice cream making STEM education learning activities which provide through Sutaphan nad Yuenyong [11] context based STEM education learning approach. This approach consists of 7 stages including (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solution, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, (5) Development of prototype or product, (6) Test and evaluation of the solution, and (7) Socialization and completion decision stage. Icecream STEM Education Learning Activity will bring students to practice integrated knowledge among chemistry, mathematics, art, and economics in order to design their products of icecream. This may has implication for organizing STEM education in school setting.
The purpose of this study was to learning activities for promoted the concept of engineering desi... more The purpose of this study was to learning activities for promoted the concept of engineering design Grade 10 students’ ideas of engineering design process on the problem based about force and motion. The force and motion unit provided the problem based activities through predict-observe-explain (POE). Participants included 60 Grade 10 students who were studying in Khon Kaen University Demonstration Secondary School (suksasart). Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. The Hynes et.al. (2011) framework of engineering design process (EPD) was applied as reference of students’ existing ideas of engineering design process. The Hynes et.al. (2011) EPD consists of 9 steps including (1) identify need or problem, 2) research need or problem, 3) develop possible solutions, 4) select the best possible solution, 5) construct a prototype, 6) test and evaluate solution, 7) communicate the solution, 8) redesign, and 9) completion decision. The force and motion POE problem based was provided in...
This study aimed to assess the competence of science teacher in teaching secondary science with s... more This study aimed to assess the competence of science teacher in teaching secondary science with spiral progression approach in terms of their knowledge on subject matter, teaching strategies, personality traits and teaching approach. Science teachers in both public and private schools within Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte served as the respondents of this study. The study used questionnaire as methodology and utilized the frequency distribution, correlation coefficient and regression analysis method. The result showed that the profile of the respondents specifically age, tenure and year in teaching science, and salary grade are correlated with science teacher’s competence in knowledge of subject matter. The result also showed that aside from age and tenure rank or position of the respondents is also correlated with the teaching strategies. Length of service correlates only with the personality traits of the respondents. Civil status, years in teaching, highest educational attainm...
The objective of the study was to determine the cognitive attributes, physical aspect and psychos... more The objective of the study was to determine the cognitive attributes, physical aspect and psychosocial aspects of students’ learning environment on their science performance. A total of one thousand one hundred twenty-three Grade 10 science students in six divisions of Region X, Philippines participated in the study. A triangulation technique was applied in which data were obtained from the survey instruments, semi-structured interview, class observation and literature review to ensure the validity and accuracy of the results of the study. This study utilized descriptive correlational and causal comparative research design. The results revealed that students performance in science was of low mastery level with a very satisfactory average grade during elementary, having a satisfactory average of all the science subjects taken from Grade 7 to Grade 9 and with a description of moving towards mastery in their scientific ability of the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) result...
Learning biology through social context local wisdom helps to encourage students to appreciate th... more Learning biology through social context local wisdom helps to encourage students to appreciate the value of what is available in the community. This research has purposed to develop Science Technology and Society (STS) based on Yuenyong, 2006 according the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy (PSE) with science on biodiversity learning activities consist of 5 steps: (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solutions, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, and (5) Socialization stage. In addition, learning activity was used according to PSE that includes three elements: moderation, reasonableness and self-immunity, as well as two conditions which are knowledge and moral. Eleventh grade student from high school in Khon Kaen, Thailand were selected for the study. However, this research is a qualitative research. Focus on interpretive paradigms of phenomena occur in the classroom. It is a way to study and analyze the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy in Bi...
This research aimed to investigate the students’ constructing scientific knowledge about diffusio... more This research aimed to investigate the students’ constructing scientific knowledge about diffusion and osmosis with analogy approach. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling method including 30 Grade 7 students in Yasothonpittayakom School, Muang District, Yasothon Province, Thailand, in second semester of 2014 academic year. Gathering data by semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaire. The data analyses were qualitative analytical techniques. The results of study revealed that almost students held the concept of dissolve to mention diffusion and held the concept of the particulate and the movement of particulate. Their explanations of diffusion and osmosis mentioned various phenomena.
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