Suttipong Boonphadung and Thassanant Unnanantn
Miller’s Model for Developing Critical Thinking Skill of PreService Teachers at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
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2015
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International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000604
https://publications.waset.org/vol/98
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
This research focused on comparing the critical
thinking of the teacher students before and after using Miller’s Model
learning activities and investigating their opinions. The sampling
groups were (1) fourth year 33 student teachers majoring in Early
Childhood Education and enrolling in semester 1 of academic year
2013 (2) third year 28 student teachers majoring in English and
enrolling in semester 2 of academic year 2013 and (3) third year 22
student teachers majoring in Thai and enrolling in semester 2 of
academic year 2013. The research instruments were (1) lesson plans
where the learning activities were settled based on Miller’s Model (2)
critical thinking assessment criteria and (3) a questionnaire on
opinions towards Miller’s Model based learning activities. The
statistical treatment was mean, deviation, different scores and Ttest.
The result unfolded that (1) the critical thinking of the students after
the assigned activities was better than before and (2) the students’
opinions towards the critical thinking improvement activities based
on Miller’s Model ranged from the level of high to highest.
Open Science Index 98, 2015