Learning Achievement in Detailed Measurement Course Using STAD Cooperative Learning Technique

Abstract

The research aimed (1) to make a comparison of learning achievement in Detailed Measurement Course and ability to read Vernier Caliper performed by the Vocational Education Certificate 1 students being taught by using STAD Cooperative Learning Technique and regular classroom method. This was a quasi-experimental research. The study sample was comprised of 32 Vocational Education Certificate first-year students of Ayutthaya Ship Boatbuilding Industrial and Technology College who were studying in the second semester, the academic year 2019.  The sample was divided into two groups to be a control group and an experimental group.

The research instruments used for collecting the data were learning management plans on measuring and reading Vernier Caliper containing learning and teaching activities based on STAD Cooperative Learning Technique and regular classroom method, a learning achievement test, and a questionnaire to examine the students? satisfaction towards being taught measuring and reading Vernier Caliper by using STAD Cooperative Learning Technique and regular classroom method.  The statistics used for analyzing the collected data included mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

The research findings were as follows: (1) the students being taught by using STAD Cooperative Learning Technique gained a higher level of the mean score of learning achievement than the students being taught by regular classroom method at the .05 level of significance and (2) the satisfaction level of the students being taught by using STAD Cooperative Learning Technique was higher than the students being taught using the regular classroom method at the .01 level of significance.