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Virtual Tutoring: An Online Environment for Scaffolding Students’ Metacognitive Problem Solving Expertise

Mohamed ELTAHİR OSMAN
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3–12
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The results suggest that embedded metacognitive prompts can be used as scaffolds to enhance learners' awareness of their ongoing thinking processes, and the need to plan their course of action and check their accuracy as they progress through any problem solving task.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Online learning technologies and virtual learning environments in particular are attracting considerable attention, and are likely to form key strategic aspects of teaching and learning science subjects at the post secondary level.
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Conclusion & Impact:The results suggest that embedded metacognitive prompts can be used as scaffolds to enhance learners' awareness of their ongoing thinking processes, and the need to plan their course of action and check their accuracy as they progress through any problem solving task.
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Online learning technologies and virtual learning environments in particular are attracting considerable attention, and are likely to form key strategic aspects of teaching and learning science subjects at the post secondary level. Learners at various levels seem to enjoy the autonomy of gaining access to expertise through online communications and web-based resources. However, simply having access to knowledge without experience does not seem to be sufficient for the development of problem solving expertise and metacognitive control. This study investigated the effects of embedded metacognitive prompts on students' metacognitive awareness, and the effects of virtual tutoring on the development of students’ metacognitive problem solving expertise in physics. Virtual tutoring environment in this study can be described as an online environment that consists of different metacognitive scaffolds: expert modelling on digital online video, access to procedural, and selfassessment prompts, and collaborative interaction among teachers and students on a WebCT platform. The results suggest that embedded metacognitive prompts can be used as scaffolds to enhance learners' awareness of their ongoing thinking processes, and the need to plan their course of action and check their accuracy as they progress through any problem solving task. It also appears that externalizing the expert’s mental activities to the students can be an effective scaffolding strategy in guiding students’ attention to specific aspects of their learning processes, and engaging them in selfassessment of their own learning and understanding

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OSMAN, M. E. (2010). Virtual Tutoring: An Online Environment for Scaffolding Students’ Metacognitive Problem Solving Expertise. Journal of Turkish Science Education, Cilt: 7 - Sayı: 4, 3–12. https://ajindex.com/articles/211023

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