Revised-Verbal Protocols : A Valuable Technique for Verbalizing the Students’ Thoughts in Teaching-Learning Process

This article presents the utilization of the ‘verbal protocols’ as a source of information about students’ cognitive learning processes. This method calls upon students to talk their thoughts out aloud, during engagement in some learning activity. Although many researchers have used verbal protocols in their studies in many discipline, however, the nature of verbal protocols and its implementation in the real classroom setting have not been known well by many teachers. The major concept of verbal protocols, the two perspectives, a brief theory of expertise, and the limitations regarding the verbal protocols will be main concerns in this paper. An explicit exemplar of revised-verbal protocols model in the learning of Doppler Effect is exposed at the last section of this paper