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Development and evaluation of a station rotation blended learning model to enhance creative thinking and poetry writing skills
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Date Issued
January 1, 2026
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Article
Abstract
Poetry writing reflects ideas, wisdom, and culture while supporting the development of analytical, synthetic, and evaluative skills essential for holistic thinking and creative expression. Despite these benefits, poetry instruction in Thai lower secondary classrooms remains predominantly lecture-based with limited activity diversity, reducing student engagement with composition. However, poetry writing offers substantial potential for creative thinking, a key 21st-century competency. This study developed and evaluated a blended learning model based on the Online-Teacher-Collaboration (OTC) Rotation Model to strengthen linguistic creative thinking and poetry-writing skills. The research involved two phases: model development through theoretical synthesis and expert validation by 7 specialists, followed by effectiveness testing using a quasi-experimental posttest-only control-group design with cluster random sampling. Participants included 78 Secondary 2 students, equally divided into experimental and control groups. Assessment data on linguistic creative thinking and poetry-writing skills were analyzed using MANOVA. Results indicated that students taught with the OTC Rotation Model scored significantly higher both in poetry writing and creative thinking than the control group. These findings carry meaningful implications for language educators and curriculum designers: the OTC Rotation Model offers a structured, evidence-based instructional framework that integrates creative thinking directly into literary composition, making it readily applicable to Thai-language classrooms without requiring extensive institutional resources. Teachers are encouraged to adopt its three-station structure online, teacher-led, and collaborative as a replicable format for designing active learning environments. Beyond Thai education, the model can be adapted across other educational levels and linguistic contexts where poetry instruction and creative thinking development are curricular priorities.
Citation
Cogent Education, 13(1), 2026