Technical College Students’ Practical Performance Anxiety during Online Learning: Difference in Gender and Average Time of Online Learning

Xu Zhang, Fangyi Zhou and Jinlei Xu
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Xu Zhang: Faculty Development Center, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Fangyi Zhou: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210098, China
Jinlei Xu: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210098, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-12

Abstract: The person-artifact-task model provided us with a method to consider the practical performance anxiety (PPA) of technical college students who were working on a computer-related task via online learning. This study investigated 474 technical college students’ PPA in online courses without hands-on demonstration (PPAOC-without-HD) and with hands-on demonstration (PPAOC-with-HD), and it explored whether their PPA varied according to gender and average time spent on online learning. The results indicated that the students’ two types of PPA (PPAOC-without-HD and PPAOC-with-HD) varied significantly by gender and across the different online learning time groups. The average levels of participants’ two types of PPA were both high, and their PPAOC-without-HD was higher than their PPAOC-with-HD. Both types of PPA for females were significantly higher than those for males. Participants’ PPAOC-with-HD showed a significant difference for the average time of online learning. The findings of this study will be of value to educators who need to design and carry out online learning courses for technical college students.

Keywords: practical performance anxiety; online learning; hands-on demonstration; gender difference; engineering education; average time of online learning; learning anxiety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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