THE EFFECT OF OPEN-ENDED STORIES TELLING ACTIVITY TOWARDS EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVES

Abstract

           The purposes of this research were as the followings: 1) to study the initiatives of early childhood through Open-Ended Stories Telling activity; and 2) to compare initiatives of early childhood before and after organizing Open-Ended Stories Telling activity. The sample of this research was the group of 20 children aged between 5-6 years studying in kindergarten level 3 in the Second semester of educational year 2565 B.E. at Bantathong School, Huai Thab Than District, Si Sa Ket Province. The school is under Si Sa Ket Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The sample was selected through simple random sampling. This experiment through Open-Ended Stories Telling activities was carried out for four weeks, three days a week specifically on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with 4 0 minutes a day. The tools used in this research were 12 Open-Ended Stories Telling activities plans and initiative observation forms. The statistics for data analysis were mean, standard deviation and t-test of dependent samples. The result of this research were as the followings: 1) Initiatives of early childhood through Open-Ended Stories Telling activity was chronologically higher  2)  The effects of Open-Ended Stories Telling Activity towards the initiatives of early childhood was that the average score after implementing the Open-Ended Stories Telling activity was higher than before implementing the Open-Ended Stories Telling activity with statistical significance at the level of .05