Design Thinking for Promoting Innovator Competency in Primary Student

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to create and develop the group activity approach based on design thinking process for promoting innovator competency, 2) to examine the students’ innovator competency after received the group activities approach based on design thinking process, and 3) to evaluate students’ preference after received the group activities approach based on design thinking process. The total of 48 samples were grade 4-6 students in Chomchon Bantung School Lampang that derived from the cluster random sampling technique. The instrument used in this study included the group activities approaches, the appropriateness and feasibility of the group activities approaches scale, the students’ innovator competency scale, the students’ project scale, and the students’ preference scale. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics including the compare mean test (dependent sample t-test).

The results revealed that 1) the group activity approach based on design thinking process for promoting innovator competency was evaluated to be at great level that consisted of four activities as follows: activity 1 “what should the product of wood handicraft be”, activity 2 “how to create the exact product of wood handicraft for delighting shopper”, activity 3 “I really like this one: the local product of wood handicraft”, and activity 4 “How to market the product”. 2) The posttest scores of innovator competency were found significantly higher than the pretest scores of innovator competency at the .05 level of significance with 2.17 score difference. And 3) The students’ preference towards the group activities approaches were evaluated to be at high level with the component of activity domain and benefits evaluated at high level.