Collaborative Writing and Self Confidence among Vocational Education Learners

Abstract

Almost universally, professional development courses combine classroom and real-world training. Students in vocational education have trouble combining the formal explicit information they learn in school with the informal tacit knowledge they learn on the job. There will be an investigation into the role of writing and peer cooperation in articulating conceptual and experiential knowledge during this design research project. At a school for social and health care assistants, 40 first- and second-year students wrote about real-world experiences, shared them with their peers, and participated in written and spoken conversations with their classmates and the teacher. It was made possible for participants to collaborate and write on the web using a wiki, a web-based platform for collaborative writing. Study results indicate that first-year students developed a lot of self-assurance, but sophomores performed less well on a competency assessment. Its collaborative character was also a big hit with students. The discussion focuses on the creation of writing and peer feedback-based learning activities for students to explain their intellectual and experiential knowledge.