Fostering Students' Critical Thinking and Modeling Skills in Grade 6 Based on Inquiry-Based Learning and Model-Based Learning
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The objective of the research was to compare the effects of pre-class and post-class fostering of critical thinking and modeling skills on Grade 6 students who managed to learn based on inquiry-based learning and model-based learning. The target group for the study was 14 students in Grade 6, which was obtained from a purposive sampling from the classrooms taught by the researcher in the second semester of the academic year 2021 at Charusornbumrung School, Pathum Thani Province. The instruments used to collect data include: 1) lesson plans based on inquiry-based learning and model-based learning about the fossil story; 2) critical thinking skills tests; and 3) modeling skills tests. The statistics used to analyze the data include percentage, mean, standard deviation, and test the hypothesis by a statistical T-test for dependent samples.
After organizing learning around inquiry-based learning and model-based learning, the test results indicated the following: 1) post-class, students exhibited significantly higher mean scores in critical thinking skills compared to pre-class, with a statistical significance level of 0.01, and 2) post-class, students displayed significantly higher mean scores in modeling skills compared to pre-class, with statistical significance at the 0.01 level, aligning with the hypothesis.
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