The role of cognitive apprenticeship has been emphasized in facilitating individual performance in the classroom, but there is limited quantitative research directly linking cognitive behaviors to mentoring relationships and workplace performance. This study investigated the characteristics of mentoring behavior that influence group performance using archival data from 52 different organization...

This article discusses the integration of animated pedagogical agent into the development of cognitive tools based upon Scientific Inquiry Model for invoking learners’ cognitive conflict and fostering conceptual change. In this study, animated pedagogical agent acts as a catalyst while coaching the learner who interacts individually carrying out the hypothesize-observeexperiment activities. Stu...

The goal of this study is to distill from a large body of literature on children learning crafts, such as pottery and weaving, the characteristics of apprenticeship as a distinct phenomenon. Currently apprenticeship is considered indistinguishable from other, more informal, means of skill transmission. From the literature survey, eleven attributes are identified as belonging to the archetypal a...

We discuss a design solution for a learning environment for students of object-oriented modeling. The learning environment consists of three tools and is explicitly based on work on situated learning and work on cognitive apprenticeship. An overall goal in this work has been to ensure a design that is well grounded both theoretically and empirically. The design of the tools relate to central is...