THE EFFECTS OF GAME-BASED LEARNING IN THE TOPIC OF ENDOCRINE SYSTEM ON SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION ABILITY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY OF GRADE 12 STUDENTS AT KANTANGPITTAYAKORN SCHOOL IN TRANG PROVINCE
Keywords:
game-based learning, scientific communication ability, scientific problem-solving ability, endocrine systemAbstract
The objectives of this research were to 1) compare the scientific communication ability of the students before and after receiving game-based learning, 2) compare the scientific problem-solving ability of the students before and after receiving game-based learning, and 3) study the development of both scientific communication ability and problem-solving ability of grade 12 students.
The research design was a one-group pretest-posttest design. The population was 3 classrooms of 93 grade 12 students from Kantangpittayakorn School in Trang province in the first semester, academic year 2025. The sample was 1 classroom of 37 grade 12 students, obtained from cluster random sampling. The research instruments included 1) lesson plans based on game-based learning, 2) a scientific communication competency assessment form, and 3) a scientific problem-solving ability test. The statistics used for data analysis included mean, standard deviation, t-test, the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test, and the normalized gain.
The results indicated that (1) students’ scientific communication ability after instruction was significantly higher than before instruction at the .05 level of significance, (2) students’ scientific problem-solving ability after instruction was significantly higher than before instruction at the .05 level of significance, and (3) the normalized gain scores of scientific communication ability and scientific problem-solving ability were both at a moderate level.
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