Precision Teaching and Learning Performance in a Blended Learning Environment

Blended learning has gained increasing popularity in colleges and universities with mixed results. Precision teaching can effectively promote learning performance. The relation between perceived precision teaching (PPT) and the learning performance of college students in a blended learning environment is investigated in this paper. In the research survey is featuring a structural model, 256 college students who attended blended learning courses featuring precision teaching participated. The model results revealed that PPT is directly and positively related to self-efficacy and learning motivation. Self-efficacy and learning motivation are directly and positively related to cognitive, teaching, and social presence. Additionally, cognitive, teaching, and social presence are directly and positively related to learning performance. Therefore, PPT is remotely and indirectly related to learning performance. These findings provide a new perspective for the theoretical study on blended learning performance and provide a realistic reference for precision teaching practice in the blended learning environment.

The effect of a supra-cognitive strategy on achievement and creative thinking in social studies for eleventh grade students in the Sultanate of Oman: أثر استراتيجية فوق المعرفية في التحصيل والتفكير الإبداعي في الدراسات الاجتماعية لدى طالبات الصف الحادي عشر بسلطنة عمان

The study aimed to investigate the impact of the above- cognitive teaching strategy on achievement and creative thinking among students of the eleventh grade in the Sultanate of Oman, and the study used the semi- experimental approach. It was implemented in 55 grade 11 students from Um Attiya School (5- 12). They were divided into two groups: an experimental (27) female student who studied using the post- cognitive teaching strategy and the other control (28) studied by the traditional method. The study experiment was continued for 4 weeks. The results of the study showed that the experimental group obtained a total average of (18.58 out of 20) in academic achievement and (54.34 of 80) in creative thinking; In return for the control's average score of (13.43 out of 20) in academic achievement and (12.86 out of 80) in creative thinking; There were statistically significant differences between the arithmetic averages for the performance of students of the experimental and control groups at the level of significance (0,05) in favor of the experimental group, and the presence of a statistical function in the arithmetic mean of the experimental group in the pre and post exam (achievement, and creative thinking scale) in favor of the post- attributable to the teaching strategy Super cognitive. In the light of the results, the researcher recommended the necessity of including curricula for metacognitive skills and holding training courses for supervisors and teachers in the field of teaching social studies to learn about the above- knowledge teaching strategy in view of its effectiveness in teaching, as the researcher suggested a set of researches in this field.

Experience Perception, Deepen Cognition

As an indispensable part of higher education in China, independent colleges bear the responsibility of talent training in the new era. Optimizing college English teaching environment in independent colleges is important for the healthy growth of college students. To explore new ideas of college English teaching in independent colleges, this paper applies the cognitive teaching model to the entire process of college English teaching, By deepening their cognition and comprehension with the flexibility of the cognitive teaching model, this enhances college students’ experience of English learning.

A matter of presence: A qualitative study on teaching individual and collective music classes

In the current study, 11 expert music teachers were asked to reflect on their own practice and compare their experience of individual and collective teaching settings. Adopting an approach based on grounded theory, two interrelated themes were identified in the raw data: teaching issues and professional development. In both categories, the notion of ‘presence’ emerged as a defining feature of the comparison. Teachers reported to be less present in collective settings, whereas one would expect that the higher (cognitive, teaching, etc.) demands associated with more learners would result in teachers being instead more involved in the unfolding dynamics of the lesson. Inspired by the conceptual tools offered by the Extended Mind (ExM) approach, we suggest that in collective settings teachers feel less present because they can offload the cognitive role of ‘teacher’ onto the learners, giving rise to a hybrid extended system that fosters a shared sense of responsibility, where pedagogical dynamics are functionally distributed across the whole group. In reporting excepts from music teachers, and adopting a novel perspective to frame our discussion, our research may contribute to existing literature in (collective) music pedagogy.

Research on the Integral Practical and Aesthetic Design Teaching of Architecture and Site Environment —Taking Kindergarten Architecture and Site Logic Model Teaching Approach as an Example

The integral practical and aesthetic design teaching of architecture and site environment is expected to deal with the junior-grade design teaching in architecture major with a current situation that the insuffcient consideration of the site environment and the chaotic city image, which caused by long-term emphasis on single function and personality performance of architecture. The key to the integral practicability and aesthetics is the emphasis on the integrality of spatial logical order of those two factors, which contains the integral harmony of function attributes, scale, logics, and modal relationships and so on. Combine with the teaching of kindergarten architecture design, using architecture and site logic model teaching methodology, through the extraction cognitive teaching approach of the site environment order logics, the cognitive teaching approach of kindergarten architecture spatial logics, the strategic teaching approach of the congruent design of the integral order of architecture and site environment logics, module and model congruent counterpoint design teaching approach of architecture and large site environment order logics, organization and construction integrated design teaching approach of architecture and small site environment spatial logics, and result design teaching approach of architectures integrated into the landscape of large site environment and their surrounding small site environment and other teaching procedures to complete the teaching tasks of the integral practical and aesthetic design of kindergarten architecture and site environment.

Exploring the Interactions on an Online Narrative Writing Platform

Purpose – This paper reports a study that investigated the interactions of six students learning to write narrative essays on an online narrative writing platform (ONWP). Participants were six students and a teacher from an urban Chinese Secondary School in the northern region of Malaysia. Methodology –The qualitative data used in this study were online interaction archives and narrative essays collected from an ONWP used by the teacher to teach narrative writing. The student-teacher interactions were coded based on the categories related to cognitive, teaching and social presences as suggested by the Community of Inquiry Model (Garrison, Archer & Anderson, 2000). Findings – Findings indicated that the cognitive, teaching and social presences suggested by the CoI model were present in the interactions while students were engaged in the ONWP. However, certain descriptors of the CoI were not found in the study. The major contribution of this study is the single, dual and triple phases which emerged from this study. The essays’ scores revealed that the students improved in their narrative writing ability after engaging in the ONWP. Significance – The fi ndings have placed the model in a new environment involving the application of CoI model in a Chinese Secondary School. Being online to fulfil wide-ranging tasks does not only involve critical thinking but also creative writing. Teachers involved in online teaching and learning activities need to encourage students to be involved in critical thinking. Students should also realise that there is more to learn in writing than just making corrections based on the comments.