Development of Learning Activity Packages Implementing Cooperative Learning with Think-Pair-Share to Cultivate Cultural Awareness among Vocational College Students

Abstract

Against the backdrop of global cultural integration and the national strategy of cultural confidence, vocational education shoulders the dual mission of cultivating skilled craftsmen and enhancing students' comprehensive cultural literacy. For fashion and accessories design majors, insufficient cultural awareness has become a prominent bottleneck restricting students' creative ability and international design competitiveness. This study aims to develop a set of standardized Learning Activity Packages (LAP) integrated with cooperative learning and the Think-Pair-Share interactive model, verify its teaching effectiveness in cultivating vocational college students' cultural awareness, and analyze students' learning satisfaction and internal improvement rules of cultural literacy. A one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was adopted. Thirty sophomore students majoring in Fashion and Accessories Design from Quanzhou College of Technology were selected as research samples to receive an 8-week, 16-class-hour instructional intervention with four core LAP units. Data were processed with descriptive statistics, paired-samples t-test, reliability test and thematic qualitative coding for open-ended feedback. Key findings include: (1) The developed LAP fully meets the 80/80 teaching efficiency standard with a task completion rate of 100% and learning goal attainment rate of 93.33%; (2) The integrated teaching model extremely significantly improves students' cultural cognitive academic achievement with Cohen's d=1.70; (3) Students' comprehensive cultural awareness level achieved statistically significant overall progress with Cohen's d=1.69; (4) Students reported extremely high overall recognition of the teaching mode with an overall satisfaction score of 4.31 on a 5-point Likert scale. This study concludes that the trinity integrated teaching carrier and interactive mechanism constructed in this research can comprehensively boost fashion design majors' cultural cognition, crosscultural sensitivity and cultural innovation confidence, and gain full student recognition.