Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the impact of General Clothing Technology Course Program having been prepared according to techniques developing reflective thinking on academic achievement and attitude of Vocational High School at Textile Technology students. The research was a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental study. The working group of the research was 42 1st grade students at Textile Technology Program. Textile Technology Program 1st year students were divided into two equal groups; control (n= 21) and experimental (n= 21). Reflective thinking based teaching was administered to the experimental group and traditional teaching methods were administrated to the control group of General Clothing Technology Courses for 14 weeks. Personal Information Form was applied to students at the beginning of the study. Before and after the experimental procedure of the General Clothing Technology Courses, Academic Achievement Test and General Clothing Technology Attitude Scale developed by researcher were used. At the end of the application the Interview Form developed to get the opinions about General Clothing Technology Course Program was applied to 10 students selected through random sampling method from experimental group. Unrelated (independent) samples t-test were used in SPSS 18.00 statistical software package program for quantitative data and the qualitative data obtained from the study was analyzed by descriptive analysis approach. At the end of the study, it was determined that there was a significant difference between the final test attitude scores for the interest in the GKT course in terms of the importance of the GKT course, in favor of the experimental group, for the activities performed in the General Clothing Technology (GKT) course. Reflective thinking approaches have been more effective in enhancing students' achievement than teaching in the program.

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