ACTIVITY BEYOND CLASSROOM ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE

Science is subject which consider difficult to understand for Thai student that resulted to the achievement of learners. In classroom, students often confuse and unrecognizable the contents. It need further study and review to help them clearly understand. Therefore, finding ways to help students better understand is necessary. In this study, "Learning by teaching. method was used. The purpose of this study was to explore that learning is enhanced through the act of teaching others. Two experiments were done to compare the achievement of learning of studying from teacher in classroom and actually teaching (explaining to others for instructional purposes). 25 undergraduate students who study in Industrial Microbiology program at Suan sunandha Rajabhat University were assigned to form groups of 3-5 persons. Experiment 1, all of them studied in classroom. Experiment 2, the group had to educate the knowledge from classroom to people in public place. Student's response were checked after that by doing post studied exam and interview. Results of experiment 1, students could get score 45-70 percent. Results of experiment 2, students could get score 65-90 percent. It found that 92 percent of students clearly understood and could remember their content. They said that the preparing to educate people enabled them to understand the contents. Also, if there were any questions, they needed to analyze the contents. These findings suggest that when students actually teach the content of a lesson, they develop their understanding than study from preparation media of professor. The outside classroom practice assisted improved science subject learning.