Utilization of Research Oral Presentation to Reinforce Undergraduate Students’ the 21st Century Skills as Active Learning

Abstract

Research oral presentation had an impact on undergraduate students’ the 21^st century skills as active learning. This was quantitative research to examine which of the 21^st century skills impressed the undergraduate students on active learning after oral presentation at the 2022 UDRU Education Students’ Research Oral Presentation at Udon Thani Rajabhat University. The population were 91 English-language education students who verbally presented their research at the event. Based on convenience sampling, 54 English-language education students who gave response to a questionnaire were samples of this study. A research instrument was an online questionnaire’s close-ended questions designed from the Google Forms and derived from a five point Likert scale. Data analysis was based on mean, standard deviation and percentage. The findings found that the research oral presentation impacted the undergraduate students’ 21st century skills as active learning at the high level (4.17±0.98). Based on this, the first three 21st century skills most satisfied by the undergraduate students comprised: (1) the research oral presentation promoted the undergraduate students’ critical thinking skill when searching data from various sources (4.24±0.95); (2) the research oral presentation brought about self-leadership and responsibility to the undergraduate students (4.24±1.03) and (3) the research oral presentation could further the undergraduate students’ research useful for applying in teaching and learning management (4.20±1.02) respectively. The outcome from the study was a database for developing the UDRU Education Students’ Research Oral Presentation another time.