The Influence of Using Soft Skills Information Management Platform for Training Soft Skills of a College`s Students in Chengdu, China
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Background and Aim: Innovations in information technology have led to the involvement of the Soft Skills Information Management Platform in teaching and learning, which provides a more diverse and flexible way of teaching and learning to improve the core soft skills of college students. This study compares the effectiveness of using traditional teaching methods and a Soft Skills Information Management Platform to improve students' core soft skills in a college in Chengdu.
Materials and Methods: Taking the first-year students of a college in Chengdu as a sample, 60 students were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly divided into 30 students in the control group and 30 students in the experimental group. A quasi-experimental method was used to experiment with traditional teaching methods and using the Soft Skills Information Management Platform as a teaching tool to collect and analyze the data from the pre-test and post-test of the two groups to assess the learning effect of the core soft skills (innovation, learning ability, leadership).
Results: The experimental results show that compared with the traditional teaching methods, the Soft Skills Information Management Platform participation in teaching has a more positive contribution to the enhancement of students’ core soft skills (innovation, learning ability, leadership), which significantly improves students’ learning effect.
Conclusion: Therefore, the use of the platform to engage in soft skills teaching and learning can be replicated and used by teachers who can use the Soft Skills Information Management Platform as a pedagogical tool in their programs to enhance the core soft skills of their students.
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