Aims: Educational scaffolding is
a kind of supporting that will help to learner to learn for solving the
problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate scaffolding educational
strategies and development of the educational scaffolding framework in the problem-solving
learning environment.
Methods: This mixed study includes qualitative
and quantitative sections. Qualitative content analysis method was
used in the qualitative section and comparative survey research method was used
in the quantitative section. In content analysis, 47 articles were evaluated
according to the criteria. To form the proposed model, the obtained data were
combined. The researcher-made questionnaire was used whose validity was
confirmed by 5 experts in the Educational Sciences field. To validate the
proposed model, 20 experts from the educational sciences field were selected by
purposefully and the proposed model was validated based on their views. The
results were analyzed using SPSS 18 software.
Findings: Generally, experts had positive
assessment to the proposed framework. The question related to the educational
scaffolding strategies for the unstructured problem-solving learning
environments (Question 7) obtained the lowest score and the question related to
the effectiveness of the framework in the computer-based learning environments
(Question 11) received the highest score.
Conclusion: Development of the optimal
scaffolding strategies is essential to design the learning environments.