An Analytical Study of The Sixth Grade Students’ Handwriting Quality in Bangkol Metropolis.

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to group the handwriting quality of the sixth grade student in Bangkok Metropolis; 2) to investigate the percentage of undesirable students’ handwriting quality of writing consonants, vowels and tone marks; 3) to compare students’ handwriting quality between with and without time limits of writing. The sample was 1174 of the sixth grade students in Bangkok Metropolis in the academic year of 1993. A simple random sampling method was used to select those students from different school sizes which were large, medium and small dimensionas from six school groups. Research material was handwriting pattern drills, consisted of given words, comprising eighteen consonants, eight vowels and two tone mark. The criteria used by the Academic Department of the Ministry of Education was selected to analyze the students’ handwriting quality. The procedures: the sample was administered to write the given handwriting pattern drills with and without time limits of writing. Data were collected and divided according to the school group students. The percentage and chi-square tests were used to analyze data. The results showed that, 1) the students’ handwriting quality could be divided into three groups:- good, moderate and bad ; 2) the most undesirable students’ handwriting quality was related to the consonants ณ ซ ส ห น, vowels ใ ไ ิ ี and a tone mark ้ ; 3) there was no significant difference at the .05 level of students’ handwriting quality between with and without time limit of writing.