Metacognitive Development in Engineering Students Through Cooperative Problem Based Learning (CPBL)

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing. It set up an environment where new technology emerges as fast as others become extinct. Future engineers will face a situation where employability is less about what you already know and more about your capacity to learn. Metacognitive skills are the skill set that has been identified to aid in enhancing every single skill needed as future engineers. Constructivist learning approaches have been shown to be effective in enhancing engineering students' metacognitive skills development. Cooperative Problem Based Learning (CPBL) is a constructivist learning approach which integrates the principles of cooperative learning (CL) into problem based learning (PBL). The purpose of this research is to investigate engineering students' metacognitive skills development as they go through CPBL. Interview with an engineering student were analyzed using an interpretative phenomenology approach about what is metacognitive skills' and how metacognitive skills is developed. Analysis of transcripts identified and cluster units of meaning into themes by the researcher.