Educational unit for garment implementing based on professional requirements for home economics educational graduate

Document Type : Research Papers

Authors

1 Clothing and Textile Department, Faculty of Home Economics, Helwan University, Egypt

2 Educational Home Economics Department, Faculty of Home Economics, Helwan University, Egypt

Abstract

The current research aims to design a proposed educational unit in the garment implementation course entitled (Skills in Sewing)
and measure the effectiveness of the proposed educational unit in providing students with the knowledge contained in it and also
in providing them with the skills included in it in addition to measuring the trends of the students ’sample towards studying the
proposed educational unit, and the sample consisted of (37) students of the second year in the Department of Educational Home
Economics at the Faculty of Home Economics, Helwan University, and by using the evaluation tools prepared by researchers and
consisting of the cognitive achievement test and skill performance, a note card to evaluate the skill performance, a product
evaluation form and a measure of trends before and after the implementation of the proposed educational unit. The data were
analysed statistically using the (T) test, Kuder-Richardson 20 method, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, the Cooper coefficient,
and the Modified Blake's Gain Ratio, the research reached a set of results, the most important of which is the effectiveness ofthe
proposed educational unit in providing students with the knowledge and skills included in the unit, in the presence of statistically
significant differences among the average degrees of the students before and after implementing the educational unit in favour of
the post test, and the results also resulted in positive attitudes of students towards the proposed educational unit.

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