A Comparison of the Effectiveness of the Study of Ethics Between Normal Study in the Classroom and the System of Online Study Through Siam Technology College’s CAI

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of the

Study of Ethics Between Normal   Study

in the Classroom and the System of

Online Study Through Siam

Technology College’s CAI

Kitsadayut   Sangthong

Faculty of  Basic Education,
Siam Technology  College, Thailand

kitsadayut@gmail.Com

Abstract - This research was a comparative study of the Ethics proficiency between the formal study in the classroom and the study via Siam Technology College’s CAI online. The objectives of this research were as follows: 1) to compare the Ethics proficiency of  the pre-test period  and the  post-test period between  groups of students who studied in the formal classroom and the students who studied via CAI online; 2) to compare the difference of the Ethics proficiency of the post-test period between groups of the students who studied in the formal study in the classroom and the students who studied via CAI; 3) to know the validity of the Ethics proficiency of the students who studied in the formal study in the classroom and the students who studied via CAI online ; and 4) to study the students’ satisfaction towards the Ethics study via   CIA online.

The subjects were undergraduate students of the four years normal course and the four years transfer credits course of Siam Technology College, Bangkok, Thailand, belonging to all faculties, fields and courses, who were registered to study the Ethics in the first semester of the academic year 2012. They were divided into two groups of students of the Faculty of Business, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Accounting and the Faculty of Technology. The subjects were also two groups of students; the fist group were 75 first year students of three branches of technology course and two branches of the fine arts. They were assigned to study in the formal classroom, with the use of power point and textbook and the teacher’s lectures. The second group were 75 first year students of two branches of the Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Accounting. They were assigned to study via CAI online, by using computers to learn lessons online. The instruments used in collecting data were 1) the Ethics proficiency tests of the pre-test and the post-test each having 20 questions; and 2) questionnaire on students’ satisfaction towards the Ethics proficiency via CAI online. The used statistics were descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics including T-test.

The results of research were found as follows:

1.The Ethics efficiency entitled “The Morality and Roles and Duties of Students” of the first group of students who studied in the formal classroom and the second group of students who studied via CAI online, had statistic difference between the pre-test period and the post-test period at the level of average .05; and two groups of students had a higher level of average in the post-test than in the pre-test period.

2. The results of the comparison of difference of the Ethics efficiency entitled “The Morality and Role and Duties of the Students” between the students who studied in the formal classroom and the students who studied via CAI online, were found that the second group of students who studied via CAI online  had a higher level of average than the first group of students who studied in the formal classroom.

3. The validity of the Ethics proficiency entitled “The Morality and Roles and Duties of Students” who studied in the formal classroom had the level of average 0.41; which meant that the students in this group made a progress in the study in 14 percent increase. The validity of the Ethics proficiency entitled “The Morality and Roles and Duties of Students” of the students who studied via CAI online had the level of average 0.53; which meant that the students in this group made a progress in the study in 53 percent increase.

4.The students who studied Ethics via CAI online had satisfaction towards the study in the whole view of the highest level.

Keywords:  Effectiveness of the Study, CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction), Ethics