Abstract—Cooperative learning has been proven to enable
learners to have a meaningful learning progression, but
research on cooperative learning based on competitive
situations is still rare. Therefore, based on the social
interdependence theory, this research proposed six research
hypotheses and a research model, and conducted a verification
analysis through the structural equation model to explore the
relationship between cooperative attitude, creative task
engagement, and competition value. In order to achieve the
research purpose, this study adopted the intentional sampling
method, and invited the participants who had participated in
the STEAM co-creation contest for urban and rural students in
2019 to complete the questionnaire. After deleting the invalid
data, there were 163 active participants, including 114 males
(69.9%), 49 females (30.1%), 58 urban school students (35.6%),
and 105 rural school students (64.4 %). The mean age was 11.83
years (standard deviation was 1.26 years). The research results
showed that the cooperative attitude was positively correlated
with the three types of creative task engagement, including
behavioral engagement, emotional engagement and cognitive
engagement, and the three types of creative task engagement
were also positively related with the competition value. From
the research results, it could be seen that the STEAM
competition in which urban and rural students work together
could bring good benefits. In addition to strengthening the
communication between students in urban and rural areas, they
could also give them a good investment in creative tasks. Based
on this, it is suggested that education authorities could increase
the cooperative learning opportunities for urban and rural
students to participate in this type of STEAM co-creation
contest.
Index Terms—PowerTech, STEAM contest, cooperative
attitude, creative task engagement, competition value.
Jon-Chao Hong, Mei-Lien Chen, Chih-Mei Wang, and Jian-Hong Ye are
with the Department of Industrial Education, National Taiwan Normal
University, Taiwan (e-mail: tcdahong@gmail.com, lyt129@lygsh.ilc.edu.tw,
may@namchow.com.tw, kimpo30107@yahoo.com.tw).
Jhen-Ni Ye is with the Graduate Institute of Technological & Vocational
Education, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
(corresponding author; e-mail: jhen13211321@gmail.com).
Cite: Jon-Chao Hong, Mei-Lien Chen, Chih-Mei Wang, Jhen-Ni Ye, and Jian-Hong Ye, "Relationship among the Urban and Rural Students’ Cooperative Attitude, Creative Task Engagements and Competition Value in Participating a STEAM Co-creation Contest," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 873-881, 2020.
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