Enhancing students' aeronautical decision-making through scaffolding strategies for higher order thinking
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Over the last few decades, classroom training in aviation education has continued mostly unchanged. It remains a highly structured presentation of information in a lecture format. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a method of teaching aeronautical decision making in aviation education based on integrated and scaffolded constructivist learning principles, compared to the typical structured lecture format. Although there are consistent findings in the available research literature regarding the process of integrated constructivist approaches in the classroom, few studies have focused on improving aviation student's higher order thinking by combining existing aviation concepts and tools in a cooperative learning classroom environment. Hence, this study introduced a curriculum design of explicit scaffolding of Bloom's taxonomy for higher order thinking and instructional scaffoldings for metacognition and psychological type to support learning from authentic accident cases while in cooperative groups.
Author: Rita Murray
Institution: University of Oklahoma
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2148204698