Developing problem-solving thinking skills of kindergarten students year 2 Watwetawanthummawat school by organizing creative art activities through the engineering design process

Abstract

This research is a quasi - experimental research with the objective to create and determine the effectiveness of creative art activities through the engineering design process to develop problem-solving skills of students in kindergarten 2 at Watwetawanthummawat School with 80/80 criteria and to compare the problem-solving thinking skills of students in kindergarten 2 students at Watwetawanthummawat School before and after the implementation of creative art activities through the engineering design process. The sample group for this research consisted of 20 kindergarten 2 students selected from a total of 40 students. The sampling method used in this research was purposive sampling, chosen because the students had pre-existing issues with problem-solving thinking skills. The research instruments included: 12 lesson plans for creative art activities incorporating the engineering design process, which achieved the highest level of quality with an average mean 4.93 and an Index of Item-Objective Congruence (IOC) of 0.30. A problem-solving thinking skills assessment form, which demonstrated content validity with a Content Validity Index (CVI) ranging from 0.67 to 1.00. The statistics employed for data analysis were the Mean, Standard Deviation, and Validity. The results showed that the creative art activities through the engineering design process to develop the problem-solving thinking skills of Kindergarten 2 student at Watwetawanthammawat School were effective at 84.10 /80.42, which passed the 80/80 criterion as required. After organizing creative arts activities through the engineering design process, it was statistically significantly higher than before the event at the level of .05