Scaffolding learning in virtual environments

Authors:
Peter Chalk
Affiliations:
School of Informatics, North London University, London N7 8DB
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2001

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Abstract

As the use of on-line teaching environments increases, tutors need to identify the tasks, procedures and interventions that enhance the quality of student learning. One theory of instruction in problem solving is scaffolding and this is used as a guide to analysis of actual interventions by the author in a software engineering assignment. Stored models of the students' solutions show various misconceptions and the tutor's comments in each case are shown to belong to one of the six categories listed in the original definition of scaffolding. One possible outcome could be the outline of a possible new instructional design pattern for this method of tutoring.