The Achievement of Mathayom Suksa Science Teachers, Using the Activity Sets for Developing Science Process Skills.

Abstract

The purposes were : (1) to construct the activity sets for developing science process skills for science teachers (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of such set (3) to compare the achievement of teachers in using science process skills before and after participating the workshop and (4) to follow up how the teacher applying science process skills in classes after participating the workshop. The sample were 36 lower and/or higher secondary science teachers from 23 schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of General Education (Central District) and the Office of Private Education Commission who participation the developing science process skills workshop organized by the Chulalongkorn University Demonstration School (Secondary Level) and also other 21 teachers from 14 schools who participating the workshop organized by Wat Borvornmongkol School. The total number of sample was 57. The instrument applied in this study had two parts : the first part was the activity sets for developing science process skills which constructed by the researchers, and the second part was including 2 sets of instruments : (1) the science process skills test developed by Vantipa Roadrangka and Pawinee Srisukvatananan and (2) questionnaires following up the sample application the workshop knowledge in classes which developed by the researchers. The researchers administered the activity sets for developing science process skills in four days workshop with both groups of sample and collected data deriving from measurement of teacher achievement in teaching science process skills before, during and after the workshop. Later, 8-9 months after the workshop the researchers had distributed a series of questionnaire to the sample to follow up their application of science process skills development activities in classes and to collect data for evaluation the effectiveness of sets of activities as well as for assessing teachers achievement in using science process skills. The criteria for evaluation were : (1) there should be at least 80 percent of total number of sample passing the evaluation not only in individual activity but also in overall sets of activity and (2) after the workshop, achievement in using science process skills of the sample should be increased.