Without video review, hands-on activities enhance vocational students' practical skill performance more effectively than virtual simulations¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? In the absence of video review, the hands-on activity group significantly outperformed the virtual simulation group on circuit fault detection performance (MD = 2.42, p < 0.001). → Zhanyong Qi 2026

Evidence¶

Zhanyong Qi 2026¶

Zhanyong Qi, Jiayi Wang, Yue Du, Xinyue Zhang. (2026). The effect of blended learning approaches on vocational school students' practical skills performance and learning behaviors: virtual simulations or hands-on activities while accessing instructional videos. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-026-09793-4

q3 · i? · causal · r2

ANCOVA on post-test skill performance with pre-test as covariate in a randomized 2x2 experiment (130 vocational students). The pairwise contrast showed the hands-on group's "superior performance in detecting circuit faults compared to the virtual simulation group" (MD = 2.42, P < 0.001); no standardized effect size was printed for this contrast.

"Additional analysis indicated that, in the absence of video review, the hands-on activity group demonstrated superior performance in detecting circuit faults compared to the virtual simulation group (MD = 2.42, P < 0.001; see Fig. 6)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Video review produces more structured reflective behavior patterns, with modality-specific video interaction sequences — related
• Hands-on activity groups show fewer erroneous operations than correct ones, and hands-on with video review students use video more than virtual simulation peers — related
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