A Comparison of students’ learning achievement between classroom learning and e-learning in Digital Photography for undergraduate, Bangkok University

Abstract

   The purposes of this research were 1) to compare students’ learning achievement in Digital Photography subject between classroom learning and e-learning and 2) to compare students’ learning achievement in the particular subject between before and after the course within both classroom learning and e-learning contexts. The study population was 2 groups of undergraduate students, 48 students in total, who were enrolled in the Digital Photography course at Bangkok University in the first semester of the 2020 academic year. The sampling utilized the purposive method. The research instruments consisted of 1) lesson plans applied in classroom learning and e-learning and 2) Pre-test and Post-test purposefully designed for testing knowledge of Digital Photography. The research data were analysed by using techniques of descriptive statistics in terms of mean (x̄) and standard deviation (SD). In addition, the researchers used inferential    statistics to analyse the collected data by using dependent and independent samples t-test.
     The research findings showed that the students’ learning achievement in the Digital Photography subject from both different learning contexts, classroom learning and e-learning, did not exhibit significant differences. The research data from the Pre-test and Post-test also indicated that their learning achievement from both different forms of learning were higher at the statistical significance level of 0.01.