Grade 11 Student's Mental Model of Fluid and Analytical Thinking in Science Teaching Through Science Technology and Society (STS) Approach

Abstract

This study reported Grade 11 student's mental model of fluid and analytical thinking in science teaching through science technology and society (STS) approach. The participants were 38 Grade 11 students in Moeiwadee, Roi-et, Thailand. The teaching and learning about fluid through science technology and society (STS) approach had carried out for 12 hours. The fluid through STS approach was developed based on framework of Yuenyong (2006). Students' mental model of fluid and analytical thinking were collected during their learning by participant observation, open questionnaire, semi-structured interview, student' task, analytical thinking test, and journal writing. The findings revealed that students' mental model of fluid were represented as verbal, equation, drawing. Data were analyzed identify patterns that offer insight into aspects of student understanding and discussed in the scientific concept. The student's analytical thinking could behave the characteristics for analytical thinking such as thinking for classifying, compare, contrast, reasoning, interpreting, collecting data and decision making. This study will discuss implication of these for science teaching and learning through STS in Thailand.