WhatsApp Generation in Zoom University: Online Pedagogical Challenges and Innovations

Management education has undergone significant changes owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The classroom delivery has moved from an offline mode to a completely online mode, unravelling many pedagogical challenges and constraints. This study explores the pedagogical challenges faced by academicians and the innovative remedial measures adopted by them. This study follows an inductive approach using qualitative interviews and uses the cognitive apprenticeship model as the theoretical underpinning. Findings indicate that all domain aspects of the cognitive apprenticeship model are not equally relevant in an online teaching scenario compared to offline teaching. Findings also indicate that the interpersonal and communicational aspects of the learning environment have gained more prominence in online teaching. This article contributes to the existing literature by bringing early evidence on the challenges and innovations in online teaching. In addition, this study also contributes to the understanding of the cognitive apprenticeship model in an online scenario. Even though the scope of the study was limited to academicians from the finance and accounting area, the findings are globally relevant. They have practical implications for other disciplines as well. JEL Classification Codes: M0, I20, I29, Y7

Preprint articles as a tool for teaching data analysis and scientific communication

The skill of analyzing and interpreting research data is central to the scientific process, yet it is one of the hardest skills for students to master. While instructors can coach students through the analysis of data that they have either generated themselves or obtained from published articles, the burgeoning availability of preprint articles provides a new potential pedagogical tool. We developed a new method in which students use a cognitive apprenticeship model to uncover how experts analyzed a paper and compare the professional’s cognitive approach to their own. Specifically, students first critique research data themselves and then identify changes between the preprint and final versions of the paper that were likely the results of peer review. From this activity, students reported diverse insights into the processes of data presentation, peer review, and scientific publishing. Analysis of preprint articles is therefore a valuable new tool to strengthen students’ information literacy and understanding of the process of science.

The Effects of a Cognitive Apprenticeship Model on the Argumentative Texts of EFL Learners

In the present study, a quasi-experimental pre-post test design was used to assess the effects of an argumentative writing strategy (POW+TREE) on the performance of grade five and six students of Greek origin who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in a Greek setting. The Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) cognitive apprenticeship model was utilized to improve the text composition skills of the students. In the experimental group (N=77), participants received instruction on general and genre-specific strategy use for planning and writing argumentative essays, on procedures to apply self-regulation (goal setting, self-monitoring, self- reinforcement, and self-instructions), and on establishing additional skills (vocabulary, grammar-drill instruction, good word choice, interesting openings etc.). The control group (N=100) was supported through a traditional curriculum in writing (focusing on spelling and grammar). Findings of the study showed that strategy instructed students wrote argumentative essays that were schematically stronger, qualitatively better, and longer than those produced by their counterparts in the control group.

Model Pembelajaran RADEC dalam Perspektif Filsafat Konstruktivisme Vygotsky

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan model pembelajaran RADEC (Read, Answer, Disscuss, Explain, and Create) dalam perspektif filsafat konstruktivisme Vigotsky. Penelitian ini menggunakan library research atau penelitian kepustakaan berdasarkan data-data kepustakaan, yaitu mengkaji model belajar RADEC dan filsafat konstruktivisme vigotsky yang dilakukan dengan menggunakan literatur berupa aturan yang mendukung dalam menganalisis topik penelitian. Adapun pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti mencoba mengeksplorasi dan memberikan argumen yang berkaitan dengan model pembelajaran RADEC dengan analisis filsafat konstruktivisme vigotsky. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa model pembelajaran RADEC melalui sintak-sintaknya sesuai dengan teori konstruktivime Vigotsky dimana kemampuan aktual siswa terlihat ketika menyelesaikan tugas tanpa bantuan oarang lain dan kemampuan potensial siswa terlihat ketika menyelesaikan tugas dengan bantuan oarang lain. Sedangkan ZPD merupakan daerah antara kemampuan aktual dan kemampuan potensial. Selama proses pembelajaran dengan model RADEC terjadi pemagangan kognitif (cognitive apprenticeship) yaitu proses dimana seseorang belajar tahap demi tahap dari mulai read (R)sampai create(C) untuk memperoleh pengetahuan melalui interaksi dengan ahlinya.

Exploring EFL Learners’ Comments on Web-Based Peer Feedback: Local and Global Revisions

The purpose of this empirical study was to explore the interactional commenting patterns that EFL learners produced in web-based peer feedback and correlate them with the learners’ writing achievement. The study employed a quasi-experimental design built on the Theory of Cognitive Apprenticeship (Collins, 1991), which gives emphasis on coaching (local revision) and scaffolding (global revision) processes. The context of the study was in a public university in Oman and 50 participants were involved in a selected range of online peer-feedback processes, synchronously and asynchronously. A paired samples t-test showed that students were able to improve their grammar range and accuracy in writing essays more than other scaling categories (e.g. content and organization). The results of the qualitative analysis indicated that students produced far more comments synchronously than asynchronously, and most of the students’ exchanges were on forms. The findings of this study could be a practical reference for those who plan to cultivate the use of technology in peer feedback practice. 

Writing Scientific Explanations: Effects of a Cognitive Apprenticeship for Students With LD and English Learners

In the current study, we examined the effect of cognitive apprenticeship with contextualized language instruction on students with LD (SWLDs) and English learners’ (ELs) ability to compose scientific explanations using a multiple-probe, multiple-baseline single-case design. Six middle school students (three in each subgroup) participated in ten 30-min sessions in an after-school program. The intervention was implemented with high fidelity, and all participants believed they benefited from the writing instruction. After instruction, SWLDs and ELs had similar gains. They wrote better explanations, as demonstrated by substantial improvements in the quality of their causal and mechanistic reasoning ( τ = 1), grammatical and lexical sophistication ( τ = 1), and holistic writing ( τ = 0.95–0.96). Changes in writing performance were maintained for 4 or more weeks. We discuss implications of these findings for science classrooms and suggest areas for future writing research.

EFFECTIVENESS OF COGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP MODEL ON METACOGNITIVE SKILLS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KERALA.

The main purpose of the study is to nd out the effectiveness of cognitive apprenticeship model on metacognitive skills of secondary school students of kerala state. The investigator compared the effectiveness of Cognitive apprenticeship model over existing constructivist method on Metacognitive skills of secondary school students under the components such as Procedural knowledge, Declarative knowledge ,Conditional knowledge ,Planning ,Monitoring and Evaluation .Research design used for the study was pretest –posttest nonequivalent group design. The analysis of the pre test mean scores of the experimental group and control group showed no signicant difference in their initial academic abilities and metacognitive skills. After using cognitive apprenticeship model for experimental group and constructivist method for the control group, it is found that the experimental group was better in performance than control group. It is found that cognitive apprenticeship model, had a signicant effect on the metacognitive skills.