A Constructivist Approach to Blended Learning: Perceptions of Indonesian Students in Kejar Paket C in Taiwan

• Main Author: Dian Taruli Jaya Panjaitan
• Other Authors: Ming-Hsiu Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u24cax

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 技術及職業教育研究所 === 106 === This study explored students’ perceptions of actual and preferred constructivist learning in blended learning setting at Kejar Paket C in Taiwan. Thirty six students were involved as participants in the study who came from three different grades, namely first grade, second grade, and third grade. A questionnaire adopted from Ebrahimi (2015) was used to collect the data in order to figure out the perceptions of the students toward the actual and preferred constructivist learning in blended learning setting. Data from the demographic section showed that the majority of the respondents’ was female (97.2%), age was under 30 years old (66.7%), work status was more than 12 hours/ day (75%), number of day offs/ month was 2 days (83.3%). It was found that the students’ perception of actual constructivist learning was “sometimes” for personal relevance, “sometimes” for uncertainty, “seldom” for critical voice, “seldom” for shared control, and “seldom” for student negotiation. On the other hand, the partipants’ perceptions of the preferred personal level was “sometimes”, the preferred uncertainty was “sometimes” , the preferred shared control was “seldom”, the preferred critical voice was “seldom”, the preferred student negotiation was “seldom. Result from the Paired Samples Test showed that the students’ perception of actual personal relevance was significantly different than the one. Aparently, the results may indicate that the use of blended learning at Kejar Paket C Program had not been able to promote constructivist learning.