THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LEARNING ACTIVITY PACKAGE ON FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENTS USING MODELING TECHNIQUE INTEGRATED WITH CONNECTIONISM THEORY TO ENHANCE CREATIVE MOVEMENT SKILLS WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANYING MUSIC OF GRADE 1 STUDENTS AT YAMJARD VICHANUSORN SCHOOL

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) examine the efficiency of lesson plans based on an activity package and lesson plans based on the teacher’s manual in accordance with the 75/75 efficiency criterion; 2) compare the creative movement skills of students before and after learning through the two instructional approaches; and 3) compare the creative movement skills between students who learned through the activity package and those who learned through the teacher’s manual. This study employed a non-equivalent control group pretest–posttest design. The sample consisted of 42 Grade 1 students from two classrooms at Yamjard Vichanusorn School, selected through cluster random sampling. The research instruments included lesson plans based on the activity package, lesson plans based on the teacher’s manual, and a creative movement skills assessment form. The collected data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, E1/E2 efficiency, dependent samples t-test, and independent samples t-test. The findings revealed that: 1) the lesson plans based on the activity package achieved an efficiency of 75.32/78.73, meeting the prescribed 75/75 criterion, whereas the lesson plans based on the teacher’s manual achieved an efficiency of 50.56/50.48; 2) students who learned through both the activity package and the teacher’s manual demonstrated significantly higher creative movement skills after instruction than before instruction at the .01 level of significance; and 3) students who learned through the activity package demonstrated significantly higher creative movement skills than those who learned through the teacher’s manual at the .01 level of significance. The findings indicate that learning management through the activity package effectively enhances the creative movement skills of elementary school students.