Research On The Influence Mechanism Of Teacher Support On Students’ Academic Engagement In A Blended-Learning Environment

In the information age,the reconstruction of teaching methods is irresistible.With the accelerating process of educational informatization,the technology can drive profound changes in teaching models,posing subversive challenges to traditional teaching pattern.Under this background,the trend of integration of information technology into education has led to the emergence of a large number of online teaching platforms,and the Blended-learning combining E-learning with traditional education has gradually become a new path for the reconstruction of classroom teaching in the field of higher education.Relevant research points out that Blended-learning can break the geographical restrictions,provide flexible and continuous learning for learners,help to better play the main role of students and cultivate their autonomous learning ability.In the field of higher education,academic engagement can measure the quality of higher education,and the improvement of college students’ academic engagement has important practical significance for the improvement of the quality of higher education in China.Previous studies has confirmed that teacher support in traditional teaching and online teaching has a direct impact on students’ academic engagement.Then,does teacher support have the same effect on students’ academic engagement in a Blended-teaching environment? What factors will affect the relationship between them?What is its specific mechanism? In this paper,students who have had blended-learning experience are taken as the research object,and the above problems are studied in order to explore the influence mechanism of teacher support on students’ academic engagement in blended-teaching environment.Based on this,firstly,this paper combed the relevant research status at home and abroad and combined with the results of previous interviews,and based on the Self-determination Theory,the Social Cognitive Theory,the Expectancy-value Theory and the Achievement Goal Theory,determined six research variables of this paper:teacher autonomy support,teacher emotional support,teacher cognitive support,self-efficacy,task value and academic engagement.With teacher autonomy support,teacher emotional support and teacher cognitive support as independent variables,academic engagement as dependent variable,academic self-efficacy and task value as intermediary variables,this paper constructed a Mediation Model and a Multiple Regression Model for the impact of teacher support on students’ academic engagement in a Blended-learning environment,and put forward research hypotheses.Based on the determined research variables,the questionnaire of this study was prepared by referring to the domestic and foreign mature scales,and the reliability and validity of the initial questionnaire were tested.Finally,the final version of the questionnaire named the Impact Mechanism of Teacher Support on Student Academic Engagement Investment in a Blended-Learning Environment was formed.In this study,586 valid questionnaires were collected from students who had Blended-learning curriculum experience in a normal university in Hubei Province.The normal distribution test,common method bias test,descriptive and correlation analysis of variables were first conducted.Then,the effectiveness of the mediation model was tested through AMOS,including direct effect and intermediary effect analysis.Finally,taking the mastery goal as the adjusting variable,a multiple linear regression model was constructed and a simple slope test was conducted using the Process.This paper conducted the above research,hoping to analyze the impact of teacher support on students’ academic engagement in a Blended-learning environment,and proposed corresponding improvement strategies,so as to provide theoretical and practical reference for further promoting students’ academic engagement,improving the quality of Blended-learning,and helping teachers carry out blended learning.The main conclusions of this paper are as follows:(1)Teachers’ autonomous support,emotional support and cognitive support have significant positive effects on students’ academic engagement;(2)Teachers’ autonomous support,emotional support and cognitive support have a significant positive impact on academic self-efficacy.teachers’ autonomous support and cognitive support have a significant positive impact on task value,but teachers’ emotional support has no significant impact on task value.Academic self-efficacy has a significant positive impact on task value,academic self-efficacy and task value have a significant positive impact on students’ academic engagement;(3)Academic self-efficacy plays a partial mediation role in the process of the impact of teacher autonomy support,emotional support and cognitive support on students’ academic engagement,while task value plays a partial mediation role in the process of the impact of teacher autonomy support and cognitive support on students’ academic engagement,but the intermediary role in the process of the impact of teacher emotional support on students’ academic engagement is not significant;(4)Teachers’ autonomous support,emotional support and cognitive support can affect students’ academic engagement through the chain mediation effect of academic self-efficacy and task value;(5)Mastery goal plays a significant negative regulatory role in the process of teachers’ emotional support and cognitive support affecting students’ academic engagement,but the regulatory role in the process of teachers’ autonomy support affecting students’ academic engagement is not significant.According to the analysis of the influence mechanism model of teacher support on students’ academic engagement in Blended-learning environment,based on the situation of higher education in China,in order to better help teachers carry out blended teaching,improve the effect of blended teaching,and promote students’ academic engagement in a Blended-learning environment,this paper puts forward the following countermeasures and suggestions:(1)Change the concept of education and give learners autonomy;(2)Strengthen the interaction between teachers and students,and boost the emotional communication between them;(3)Enrich teaching methods and fully mobilize students’ enthusiasm for learning;(4)Optimize the Blended-learning platform to enhance the sense of learning experience.