The Comparison Effects of Student Typing Skills trained with the developed Sight-Sound-Say CAI System and Typical System

Abstract

The purpose of this research was: to construct the Computer Assisted Instruction (CIA) in Thai and English languages for training the system “Sight-Sound and Say”, to validate the efficiency of the constructed CAI, to compare mean scores of touch type skill between a training system Sight-Sound and Say and typical system, and to analyze the correlation between the mean score from the aptitude test and touch type skill. Instruments used in the research were a training system Sight-Sound and Say for Thai and English languages. The process to train the students was to look at the lesson, to listen and to speech lessons. The lessons were derived by counting the analyzed letters and words from awarded thesis in the department of civil engineering using computer program character frequency analyzer to count the characters and words. The population was students in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Technical Education, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok. The sample was 30 voluntary and was divided into groups with fifteen students which were experimental group and control group. Collecting the data. Used the pre- and post-tests. After the completed lessons 2 weeks the sample did again the post tests. The results showed that, the develop CAI contained 13 chapters of Thai lessons (65 frames) and 10 chapters of English lesson (50 frames). The training system takes one hour per lesson, The efficiency of the Thai and English CAI was 76.06/76.88 and 75.28/76.53 which higher than the set criterion of 75/75 The comparison mean scores of touch type skill of the experimental groups for Thai and English languages CAI were average =23.07 , S =3.63 and average =19.13 , S =2.26. The control group for Thai and English languages was average =19.67 , S =3.86 and average =17.27 , S =3.08. The mean difference was statistically significant at .05 level. The mean score of the test to practice touch Thai and English language’s students after the end of every training lesson and then 2 weeks later. found that the mean score of both group were difference. The mean score of the experimental groups for Thai and English languages was Th =-4.40 , S =4.48 and Eng =-3.40 , S =2.18. The mean score of the control group for Thai and English languages was Th =-6.74 ,S =1.87 and Eng =-4.14 , S =2.50. The mean difference was statistically significant at .05 level. Correlation between the mean score from the aptitude test and the training score for Thai and English languages was 0.64 and 0.65 which was at high level.