Effectiveness of Electronic Media Assisted Teaching Tools (e-MATT) in the First Aid Content among Grade 4 Students in Suphanburi Municipality Primary School

Abstract

The use of electronic media as a teaching assisted tool is considered an effective alternative that helps improving learning process among students. It is currently also integrable to the teaching of the first aid content. This study was a two-group, pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design aiming at determining effectiveness and satisfaction of electronic media assisted teaching tools (e-MATT) on first aid for grade four students in Suphanburi Municipality Primary School. Samples were 56 grade four students in Suphanburi Municipality Primary School selected by using the purposive sampling method. Participants were divided into 2 groups: 28 students for the experimental group and the other 28 students for the control one. The intervention was comprised of the e-MATT on first aid, the first aid paper test and satisfaction assessment forms. Statistics used in this study included means, percentage, standard deviation and t-test. The results revealed that the e-MATT showed effectiveness as a teaching tool. Students in the experimental group had significantly higher average knowledge after teaching than before and higher han that of the control group (p<0.05). Overall, students in the experimental group were satisfied with the e-MATT at a high level. The authors recommendated that the e-MATT should be disseminated to other interested primary schools as an alternative teaching tool on the first aid contents.