Development of Instructional Activity Package based on STEM Education Process for High-frequency Transmission Engineering Education

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop an instructional activity package based on STEM education process for high-frequency transmission engineering, 2) to test the performance of instructional activity package based on STEM education and 3) to evaluate the students’ satisfaction in using the instructional activity package. The research tools were the instructional activity package based on STEM education process which consists of teacher’s manual, STEM based instructional package, and achievement tests. Data were analyzed by mean and standard deviation. The sampling group was 35 undergraduate students who registered the communication networks and transmission lines subject using by simple purposive sampling technique at the teacher training in electrical engineering department, technical education faculty, King Mongkut's university of technology North Bangkok. The research results showed that 1) the quality of developed instructional activity package based on STEM education was more appropriate (mean = 4.00, S.D. = 0.15), 2) the performance of developed instructional activity package was in accordance with the standard criteria of Meguigans's formula (equaled to 1.25) and 3) the students' satisfaction using an instructional activity package based on STEM education was at high level (mean = 4.01, S.D. = 0.22). Therefore, the developed instructional activity package based on STEM education can be used effectively in the teaching of telecommunication engineering education.