Analytical Thinking Ability of Grade 7 Students Taught by Science Inquiry Method Cooperated With Graphic Organizer Technique

Abstract

          The study of this research was to develop the analytical ability and learning achievement of Grade 7 students taught by Science inquiry method cooperated with using graphic organizer technique in thermal energy chapter. The data collected by using Pre-Experimental Designs with One Group Pretest – Posttest. The populations of this study consisted of 25 Grade 7 students from Ban Pangoong, Chiang Mai Province that all students are ethnicity people. The research instruments consisted of 2 parts 1) the research instrument was 7 lesson plans 2) the collecting data instrument consisted of 2 parts. The quantitative data were analytical ability test and learning achievement test. The qualitative data was learning achievement recording form in Science subject of the students who was taught by inquiry method cooperated with using graphic organizer technique. The statistics of this research analyzed by mean, percentage and standard deviation. The research found that students had analytical ability in every parts of study especially analytical ability scores of students the post-test scores increased than the pre-test scores and the learning achievement in Science subject of the students who was taught by inquiry method cooperated with using graphic organizer technique had average score with 78.80 so there was higher than the required criteria.