Learning Experience Provision of the STEAM Education on Preschool Children’s Creative Problem Solving Ability

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to compare preschool children’s creative problem solving ability through learning experience provision of the STEAM Education. Subjects used in this research were 14 male and female preschool children ranging in age from 5 to 6 years old.  They were studying in kindergarten level 2 at Pratoochai school, second semester of the 2015 academic year.  They were selected by purposive sampling.  The research instruments included 20 activity plans on learning experience provision of the STEAM education; test of creative problem solving abilities for preschool children; and behavioral form of preschool children’s creative problem solving ability.  Data were analyzed by mean and standard deviation.  Content analysis was used for qualitative data.

The research result showed that the children who obtained learning experience provision of the STEAM education including 5 stages as 1) Identify a Challenge;2) Explore Ideas;3) Plan and Develop; 4) Test and Evaluate; and 5) Present the Solution had higher creative problem solving ability after the experiment than before the experiment.