Blended Learning for Teaching a Proposed Unit on Smart Clothing (A Experimental Study on Female Students in Industrial Technical Education)

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1 Faculty of Specific Education - Minia University

2 department of home economic - Faculty of Specific education - minia University - minia - egypt

3 instruction and teaching methods faculty of specific Education- Minia University Egypt

4 Faculty of specific Education - Minia Universtay

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The current research aimed to assess the effectiveness of a blended learning program for teaching a proposed unit on smart clothing in a quasi-experimental study involving female students in industrial technical Education. The researcher adopted a quasi-experimental design with a single group. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher: 1. Designed a proposed blended learning program for teaching smart fabrics, which included creating new educational scenarios that combined classroom instruction with online teaching using the Microsoft Teams platform for delivering lessons. 2. Developed a formative assessment to measure the cognitive understanding of smart clothing.The research tools were applied to a sample of 33 students from the second year of the garment manufacturing specialization at Bani Mazar Secondary Technical School for the academic year 2023–2024. The findings revealed statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) between the mean scores of the students in the pre- and post-tests for cognitive achievement and observation checklist, favoring the post-application results.

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