Training curriculum development to enhance the system thinking ability of undergraduate students

Abstract

The objective of this study comprised of two aspects: (1) developing the training curriculum to enhance the system thinking ability of undergraduate students, and (2) finding out its effectiveness due to the curriculum implementation with undergraduate students. The samples were 20 voluntary of Ramkhamhaeng university undergraduate students. The process of curriculum development employed Taba's and applied it in to five steps. Data collection was derived by the curriculum experimenting to develop all of the five dimensions: Carefulness, Reading ability, Reasoning ability, Learning inquiry, and Moral reasoning. Thorough activities were planned within the scope of the development curriculum for 13 hours. Follow by one group pretest-posttest design to measure all five dimensions test and ability to system thinking measurement test [1]. The findings revealed that the developed curriculum based on the conceptual framework could develop higher system thinking ability. The Comparison showed that the voluntary group were superior to the control at the .05 level of significant. The voluntary group was satisfied with the activities at high level.