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schools of Kerala, India. To conduct a Case Library is necessary to store all
the experiment, 46 teachers with an the Cases (Stories) and its associated
experience of 10 years or below were paraphernalia. Therefore, the
selected conveniently. Out of which 20 investigator designed this Case Based
teachers were in the control group and Problem Solving Learning Environment
26 were in the experimental group. on the principles and theories put
forward by Schank (1982), Kolodner
To develop the Case Library, the
investigator interviewed beginner (1992), Aamodt and Plaza (1994),
teachers (with a teaching experience Jonassen (2007, 2011) and others.
of up to10 years) from Aided and After collecting relevant Cases during
Government High Schools of the State of the first phase, the investigator defined
Kerala, India. For this a semi-structured the raw and scattered information given
interview schedule was constructed by the beginner teachers into Cases
to elicit real life experiences from the (Stories). Later, the investigator indexed
beginner teachers that could be turned these Cases into several themes and
into Cases of Classroom Management identified teaching moments and
Problems. associated cases. The investigator
identified seven themes on which all
The researcher interviewed 150
beginner teachers from 6 out of 14 the Cases on Classroom Management
districts of the State of Kerala, India. Problems could be grouped into. The
All the teachers were interviewed seven themes were:
individually. The average time taken to Theme 1: A teacher who cannot control
interview a beginner teacher was around emotions while students misbehave.
25 to 30 minutes. The researcher audio Theme 2: A teacher who cannot manage
recorded the interview only after the a student who misbehaves. Theme 3: A
consent from the beginner teacher. The teacher who cannot manage students
interviews were conducted in a closed owing to lack of moral development.
room where the beginner teachers Theme 4: A teacher who cannot manage
were given absolute privacy from their a group of students who misbehave.
co-workers and superiors, so they Theme 5: A teacher who cannot manage
could without fear share their uneasy students owing to ineffective teaching-
experience with the researcher. These learning methods. Theme 6: A teacher
cases were crafted into engaging stories who cannot manage students with
without losing the reality of the case psychological problems. Theme 7: A
but enriching the readability, and often teacher who cannot manage students
reserving the climax of the problem owing to lack of infrastructure.
to appear in the last paragraph of the All the elicited cases from beginner
story.
teachers were unresolved problems.
The researcher after discussions Only experts in the field could give
with experts and review of literature guidelines to solve them using their year
understood that for a Case Based long experience and problem solving
Reasoning system to work properly, skills. The case library is incomplete

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