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Coaching via cognitive apprenticeship

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At Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley campus we employ a learn-by-doing educational approach in which nearly all student learning, and thus instruction, is in the context of realistic, team-based projects. Consequently, we have adopted coaching as our predominant teaching model.
In this paper we reflect on our experience with the nature of teaching by coaching using a framework derived from Cognitive Apprenticeship, and explain how we employ the techniques it suggests in our teaching. We also discuss a range of instructional tensions that arise in teaching by coaching and present a survey of student attitudes regarding the effectiveness of our approach.

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2010
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DOI:10.1145/1734263
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  1. active learning
  2. cognitive apprenticeship
  3. cs ed research
  4. experience report
  5. graduate studies
  6. information systems
  7. instructional technologies
  8. learning by doing
  9. professional practice
  10. software engineering
  11. story-centered curricula

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