A study of the relationship between teachers’ teaching style and students’ classroom participation: A case study of a middle school in China

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Yu-shan wang
Busaya Vongchavalitkul
Wallaya Chupradit
Wang-Kun Chen
Walaiporn Chaya

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This research article to were objective 1)To investigate teaching styles of middle school art teachers in a middle school in China 2)To describe student participation in art classrooms in one middle school in China 3)To determine the relationship between the teaching style of middle school art teachers and students' participation. The data were collected through questionnaires; distributed in 145 students in art classrooms. In order to investigate the relationship between these two variables, correlation and regression analysis were applied.  The results revealed that there was a significant relationship between teaching style and student participation. However, according to regression analysis, (1) council or activity style and (2) principal or group style have a significant impact on emotional participation. Authority or presentation style, demonstration or coaching style, counselor or activity mode style, principal or group style and the hybrid or blended style had no significant effect on behavioral participation and cognitive participation.  Through the research hypothesis, the influence of middle school art teachers' teaching styles on students' classroom participation was constructed based on an analytical framework that used a case study of a typical teaching style in the art classroom of the Middle School. The analysis found that there were significant differences in students' cognitive, behavioral, and affective engagement based on the feedback from the questionnaire data with 145 students participating at a Middle School in China with the same test data variables, which further supports the research hypothesis presented in the introduction section.

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