Development of environmental knowledge, team working skills and desirable behaviors on environmental conservation of Matthayomsuksa 6 students using good science thinking moves method with metacognition techniques

Abstract

The research aimed to investigate environmental knowledge, team working skills, and desirable behaviors of students learning through the good science thinking moves method with metacognition techniques. The sample group included Matthayomsuksa 6 students from Nadoon Prachasan School, Nadoon District, Maha Sarakham Province. The research tools were (1) 6 teaching plans designed under the good science thinking moves method with metacognition techniques, entitled "Human and Sustainability of the Environment," (2) a 40-item test on environmental knowledge with the reliability index of 0.7918 and the difficulty and discrimination indexes ranging from 0.26 to 0.78 and 0.24 to 0.82, respectively, (3) a team-working observation form, and (4) a behavior observation form. The results revealed that the teaching plans designed had the effectiveness index of 0.7290. The students gained more environmental knowledge after learning with the p-value of 0.001. In addition the students gained better team working skills and presented desirable behaviors after learning with the score higher than 50% of the total score.