Volume 6 : Issue 3 (2019)

Effect of Integrated Curriculum on Micro Thinking Skill of Elementary School Students

The present paper focuses on the effectiveness of the integrated curriculum. The paper investigates the effectiveness of the integrated curriculum on micro thinking skills of the students of standard 3. Another objective of the paper was to modify the integrated curriculum. The integrated curriculum was developed by Children’s University. To know the effectiveness one group pretest-posttest experimental design was implemented. To suggest a correction to the integrated curriculum the content analysis has been done. For the implementation of the program one school was selected by the purposive sampling technique. The cluster standard 3rd of the selected school was selected as a sample. First of all, the pretest was given to the student and after that program was implemented. After that again the posttest was administrated. Data was analyzed and the effectiveness of the program was derived. The result shows that the program was effective for the enhancement of micro thinking skills. The program was effective on higher order and lower order micro thinking skills. The program was effective regardless of students’ gender, educational achievement, socioeconomic status, their parents’ education. The results of the content analysis suggest that the program has more emphasis on two skills: remembering and analyzing. At the end of this study, the effectiveness of the integrated program was established and some suggestions for the improvement in the program were collected

Integrated Curriculum, Micro Thinking skills