THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTICAL THINKING SKILLS BY THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM IN SOCIAL STUDIES SUBJECT FOR GRADE 3 STUDENTS

Abstract

The research aimed to 1) Compare analytical thinking skills in Social studies before and after learning through the Flipped classroom of grade 3 students 2) Compare learning achievement in Social studies before and after studying  the Flipped classroom of grade 3 students and 3) Study the satisfaction of grade 3 students towards teaching by the Flipped classroom. The samples were 28 students from Grade 3/5 at Pratoochai school under Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, Ayutthaya and studying in the second semester of the academic year 2022. They were selected by using a multi-stage Sampling method. The research instruments were 1) Lesson plans of Social studies using the Flipped classroom 2) The analytical thinking skills test of Social studies 3) The achievement test of Social studies and 4) The satisfaction questionnaire on the instruction of the Flipped classroom. The statistics used to analyze data were mean, standard deviation and t-test for dependent Samples. The results of this research were as follows: 1) The analytical thinking skills in Social studies of grade 3 students after studying the Flipped classroom were higher than before studying at a statistical significance level of .05 2) The learning achievement in Social Studies of grade 3 students after studying the Flipped classroom were higher than before studying at a statistical significance level of .05 and 3) The satisfaction of grade 3 students towards teaching by the Flipped classroom were at a high level overall.