The Influence on Applying Experiential Education Program to Elementary School Students for the Systems Thinking Skill

• Main Authors: Chih-Hui Tsai, 蔡志輝
• Other Authors: Yi-Jin Ye
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81687609822533357895

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 休閒產業經營學系碩士班 === 101 === Since independent thinking and problem-solving ability is important in modern society, the Ministry of Education had announced “to help students develop the ability of independent thinking and self-reflection, systematically judge questions and effectively solve problems” in the Grade 1-9 Curriculum Guidelines. Also, the PISA programmed by OECD added “problem-solving” as an assessment item.To solve problem, people have to get a whole understanding of the problem, by the way, systems thinking helps to see clearly, and to connect the defining interactions among factors. The purpose of this study is to explore whether it can help elementary school students develop systems thinking sikll through integrating experiential education program into Grade5 comprehensive curriculum, and to discuss the systems thinking sikll differences and academic achievements of different genders. This study adopts quasi-experimental research. The curriculum integrated with experiential education program is applied to the quasi-experiment group; and the curriculum taught with teachers’ manual applied to the control group. This research adopts SPSS to carry out descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANCOVA analysis. After a 8-week experiential curriculum, the findings are : 1. Integrated experiential education project does help to enhance the systems thinking skill of the elementary high-grade students. 2. There is no significant difference between boys and girls in systems thinking skill before practicing experiential education program. 3. There is no significant difference between boys and girls in the learning effects of systems thinking skill.