A Task-Based E-Learning Courseware to Enhance Pre-Service Teachers' Writing Skills for Leaders

Abstract

The purpose of this research aimed to develop a task-based e-learning courseware to improve pre-service teachers' writing skills for leaders. The following samples were included in this mixed-methods study: 1) ten teachers of Thai learning area or other subject areas, under the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, as well as teachers who have taught a Bachelor of Education program in Thai and had at least three years of teaching experience, were selected using a sampling technique known as purposive sampling; 2) ten fourth-year pre-service teachers majoring in Thai language from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, who passed a teaching observation and participated in a teaching experiment in schools were selected using purposive sampling; and 3) twenty fourth-year pre-service teachers from the Division of Thai, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University who passed a teaching observation and participated in a teaching experiment in schools as well as enrolling in the Writing for Academic and Professional Communication course (course code 2191104) in the second semester of academic year 2021 were chosen by cluster sampling. The results indicated that 1) the task-based e-learning courseware consisted of three steps: preparing task, practicing task, and post-practicing task; 2) the developed e-learning courseware met the 80/80 benchmark with an efficiency of 86.67/85.13; and 3) the developed e-learning courseware significantly improved pre-service teachers' writing skills for leaders after learning compared to before learning at the .05 level of significance.