The Development of Group Working Skills for Grade IV Students in the Learning Unit of “Good Citizen Duty Actions” through Inquiry-based Learning with Cooperative Learning
Keywords:
Group Work Skills, Inquiry-based Learning, Cooperative LearningAbstract
The objective of this research was to investigate group working skills development of Grade IV students in a learning unit of Good Citizen’s Duties. This learning unit focused on Inquiry-based learning and cooperative learning. The study group was selected purposively, Consisting of a class of Grade IV students of a Demonstration School in Bangkok, Thailand. There were four research instruments: 1) Five lesson plans focused on Inquiry-based and Cooperative learning of the Learning Unit: Good Citizen’s Duties-Thai Democratic Citizenship, 2) A questionnaire about group work skills, 3) Group work evaluation form, and 4) Semistructured interview transcription. The data were
analyzed by quantitative method to find Frequency, Mean and Percentage in group work evaluation form. The research found that 1 ) development in group working in “Very good/Excellent” level in learning Unit; Good Citizen’s Duties Group work development increased by 38.03%. 2 ) There were some students encountered problems in group
working with proportion decreased by 22.64%. and 3) Group working was successful from the first to the fifth class when all group members worked together, followed their roles, participated in working, gave opinions and accepted opinions from other group members
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