The Effect of Using Concept Mapping for The Development of Analytical Thinking ability of Undergraduate Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) Compare the analytical thinking ability of the undergraduate students before and after using concept mapping. 2) Investigate the undergraduate students’ satisfaction in learning to use concept mapping. The research instruments consisted of 1) Four instructional plans of analytical thinking, three hours for each plan, twelve hours in total. 2) An analytical thinking ability test, thirty multiple-choice types with four options, used for pre-test and post-test. And  3) The 15 satisfaction questionnaires about using concept mapping, with a rating scale of five levels. The simple group consisted of 52 first-year undergraduate students at Nakhon Ratchasima College, academic year 2022, enrolled in the GE301 Thai Language for Communication subject and selected by Simple Random Sampling. The statistics used for analyzing data were mean, standard deviation, percentage, and the t-test.

The results were as follows: 1) The analytical thinking ability of the undergraduate students after using concept mapping was higher than before, with the level of statistical significance at .05 and 2) The students’ satisfaction with concept mapping overall was at the high level.