Using Participatory Teaching in Hands-On Courses: Exploring the Influence of Teaching Cases on Learning Motivation

Abstract

Industrial design is an applied discipline that combines aesthetics and engineering. Through hands-on activities, students can better understand shapes and details in model making. The literature shows that hands-on courses help enhance students’ creativity, learning motivation, and interest. Model-making courses are one of the hands-on courses in industrial design programs. To enhance students’ learning enthusiasm in the practical course of this study, we introduced a “participatory teaching method”. To examine changes in students’ learning motivation after the new teaching method was introduced, the researchers conducted mid-term and final questionnaires and collected feedback on the students’ learning experiences. The results showed that the introduction of the participatory teaching method had a positive impact on students’ learning motivation, as they could participate in the planning and evaluation of course content. These results can serve as a reference for future course planning.

Examining the Effects of Supervised Laboratory Instruction on Students’ Motivation and Their Understanding of Chemistry

“…Another possible explanation for the positive influence of SRL-SLI on students' motivation may be the utilization of explicit teaching by applying challenging tasks and incorporating a variety of active teaching-learning approaches (reflective group discussions, teachers' scaffolding and pre-laboratory activities) that might have encouraged students to think more about the laboratory teaching-learning process and make use of different learning strategies, as stated in previous studies [27,35,36,67].…”

“…The current study sheds light on and provides further empirical support for previous studies in science education, showing the effectiveness of the SLI learning model (and related instructional approaches) over regular instruction (e.g., see Refs. [35,36,59,60,67]).…”