Learning Characteristics of Higher Vocational College Students:A Latent Profile Analysis Based on the Learning Activities
Grasping the characteristics of students'differences is an important entry point for the high-quality development of vocational education,and it is the prerequisite and foundation for educational and teaching reforms.Based on Biggs'"3P"teaching-learning model,we construct a framework for analyzing higher vocational students'learning activities and differentiate student groups.Through the Latent Profile Analysis(LPA),the higher vocational education students were categorized into five types based on the characteristics of their learning activities:learning indifference,collaborative promotion,inefficient learning,balanced development and twice the effort with half the effort.Higher vocational education students are predominantly inefficient learning.Different types of students have their own distribution of demographic variables,which proves the value of exploring the learning characteristics and differences of higher vocational students through categorization.According to the learning characteristics of different types of higher vocational students,higher vocational colleges and teachers should accurately study the types of students and provide differentiated learning support;grasp the attributes of the types of students and construct differentiated teaching programs;and implement accurate targeted teaching strategies based on the stage-specific characteristics of students.
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