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The study will focus on these following study, a Case is a real-world classroom
research questions: management experience elicited from a
beginner teacher and crafted carefully
1. What effect does online Case
Based Reasoning have on the into the structure of an intriguing story
abilities of in-service teachers snippet.
in solving the Classroom According to Kolodner (1992), “Case-
Management Problems? based reasoning can mean adapting old

2. What will be the attitude solutions to meet new demands; using
of beginner teachers towards old cases to explain new situations; using

employing online Case Based old cases to critique new solutions; or
Reasoning in solving Classroom reasoning from precedents to interpret
Management Problems? a new situation or create an equitable
solution to a new problem”.
Jonassen (2011) explains Case Library A Classroom Management Problem
as, “stories that are made available is the felt difficulty of teachers when
to learners. The stories in the library they attempt to realize instructional
are indexed in order to make them objectives in the classroom, when; (a) a
accessible to learners when they teacher cannot control emotions while
encounter a problem. Those indexes students misbehave, (b) a teacher cannot
may identify common contextual manage a student who misbehaves,
elements, solutions tried, expectations (c) a teacher cannot manage students
violated, or lessons learned. Each owing to lack of moral development,
experience in a case library represents (d) a teacher cannot manage a group of
the experiences that others have had students who misbehave, (e) a teacher
while trying to solve problems”. In the cannot manage students owing to
present study the Case Library consists ineffective teaching-learning method, (f)
of prior experiences as Cases in the a teacher cannot manage students with
form of stories enriched with scaffolds psychological problem, (g) a teacher
which include cartoons, hint questions, cannot manage students owing to lack
excerpts of underlying theory and of infrastructure.
expert solutions that help the learner
to understand the problem and design Methodology
their own alternate solutions to the
problem. The present study is an experimental
study in which pre-test post-test non-
Cases are instances of anything from equivalent group design is used.
a sentence-level or pictorial example The experimental and control group
to a complex, multi-page case study consisted of beginner teachers who
to a complex simulation of a problem. were identified purposefully from
Problems, worked examples, case different schools of the State of Kerala,
studies, structural analogues, prior India. The population for the present
experiences, alternative perspectives, study is high school teachers teaching
and simulations are all examples of in Government and Government-aided
cases (Jonassen, 2011). In the present

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