A STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BLENDED PROCESS ORIENTED GUIDED INQUIRY LEARNING ON SOCIAL SKILLS AMONG STUDENT TEACHERS- A MIXED METHOD STUDY

The study examined the effectiveness of Blended Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) on Social Skills among student teachers. For this study, student teachers studying in the first year B.Ed. program were selected. The study adopted a quasi-experimental mixed method approach. Descriptive and inferential analysis were used to analyse the quantitative data while thematic analysis was adopted to analyse the qualitative data. It was found that the blended POGIL intervention improved social skills such as leadership, communicative participation as well as cooperative and structured teamwork.