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The Effect of Problem Solving Learning on the Task Performing Ability in the Elementary Practical Arts Education

The purpose of this study was to learn the effects of the problem solving method on the task performing ability in the elementary practical arts education. To achieve the purpose of this study, two classes were selected in 6th grade Shingi Elementary School in Anyang, as an experimental group and another as a control group. The experimental group was taught by the problem solving method and the control group was taught by the traditional learning method. This study was designed as the pretest-posttest control group design and conducted the t-test by using the SPSS Program for analysis of the data. The results of this experiment were summarized as follows: First, the students who took the class of the problem solving method showed higher levels of task performing abilities on the assignments than that of the students who took the traditional method, along with some other considerable differences. Therefore, teaching the class with the problem solving method strategy helped more in advancing the task performing abilities than the traditional method achieved. Second, the students who took the class of the problem solving method showed higher level of abilities in various fields, such as collecting information, planning of solving the task, performing achievement and evaluation in cooking foods, compared with the students who took the traditional method. Therefore, teaching the class using the problem solving method was more effective in developing abilities such as information collecting, planning of solving the task, and performing achievement than the traditional method.