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Zion Michal Schwartz Renee S. Rimerman-Shmueli Esther Adler Idit 《Research in Science Education》2020,50(4):1281-1304
Research in Science Education - One of today’s challenges in science education involves the development of appropriate conceptions of inquiry teaching and realizing how these experiences can... 相似文献
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Judith A. Morrison 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2013,24(3):573-588
This study was an exploration of the conceptions of inquiry science held by exemplary elementary teachers. The origins of these conceptions were explored in order to establish how best to improve elementary teachers’ understanding and implementation of inquiry science teaching. Four focus group sessions were held as well as classroom observations. Data were also collected through surveys and interviews. The six exemplary teachers in this study held ideas about inquiry as “finding things out” and all described themselves as having been children who explored and experimented with the world around them. The teachers provided information about successful classroom environments and attitudes that they use to achieve strong inquiry science learning. The teachers had a number of recommendations for helping other teachers become inquiry science teachers and suggestions for professional development for teachers are made based on these recommendations. 相似文献
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Julia D. Plummer Valerie M. Zahm Rebecca Rice 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(4):471-493
This study investigated the impact of an open inquiry experience on elementary science methods students’ understanding of
celestial motion as well as the methods developed by students to answer their own research questions. Pre/post interviews
and assessments were used to measure change in participants’ understanding (N = 18). A qualitative approach was used to describe the nature of each participant’s investigation through an analysis of
their science journal and poster presentations. A comparison of participants’ inquiry projects with the change in their understanding
revealed that while most participants improved in both their area of inquiry and beyond, elementary science methods students
may need more guidance to reach a full scientific understanding across all aspects of celestial motion. 相似文献
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Deborah J. Trumbull Grace Scarano Rick Bonney 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(14):1717-1750
In this study we sought to understand factors that shaped teachers’ use of student inquiry projects. We examined, over 3 years, the practices and conceptions of two teachers involved in implementing student inquiry projects. Neither teacher was initially satisfied with her success at supporting student inquiry, but the two had very different responses to difficulties they faced. These responses related strongly to their ideas about how learning should be structured. There was less relation between their stated views about the nature of science and their use of inquiry than was expected. The teacher with espoused views about the nature of science generally in accord with reform documents did not support student inquiry projects that involved actual investigations. The teacher with views on the nature of science less aligned with reform documents worked hard to support student investigations in her classroom. Our findings support the claim that merely learning about the nature of science or about student inquiry may not generate changes in a teacher’s practice. On closer analysis, we found that the two teachers understood aspects of the nature of science from two quite different perspectives, the proximal and the distal. The proximal view of the nature of science was more closely aligned with implementation of actual student investigations. The efforts of these two teachers in implementing inquiry illustrate the dilemmas and challenges they faced as they attempted student inquiry projects. 相似文献
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Christine R. Lotter Stephen Thompson Tammiee S. Dickenson Whitney F. Smiley Genine Blue Mary Rea 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2018,16(2):255-273
This study examined changes in middle school teachers’ beliefs about inquiry, implementation of inquiry practices, and self-efficacy to teach science through inquiry after participating in a year-long professional development program. The professional development model design was based on Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory of learning and literature on effective professional development. Using the Electronic Quality of Inquiry Protocol (EQUIP) before and after the program (Marshall, Smart & Horton, 2010), teachers’ quality of inquiry instruction significantly increased across all 4 EQUIP factors. To assess teachers’ inquiry teaching efficacy, the Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI; Dira-Smolleck, 2004) instrument was administered 3 times to the teacher participants. Changes between time points of TSI administration were examined for personal self-efficacy and outcome expectancy across 5 essential features of classroom inquiry. Findings for the personal self-efficacy scale showed statistically significant gains from pre-Institute to 1-year follow-up for all 5 inquiry features. Teachers’ outcome expectancy beliefs significantly increased across the program for 3 of the 5 essential features of inquiry. The results indicate the effectiveness of the professional development model at increasing the participants’ inquiry efficacy as well as the quality of their inquiry instruction. Our study provides evidence to support the need to include collaborative practice-teaching and reflection opportunities within professional development models that aim to increase teachers’ use of inquiry-based instructional strategies. 相似文献
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Christine Lotter Jonathan Singer Jenice Godley 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(6):553-582
This study describes the influence of a secondary science methods program on secondary science preservice teachers’ views
and enactment of nature of science and inquiry-based instructional practices. Built into the structure of this program were
three cycles of practice teaching and reflection in which the preservice teachers focused on key pedagogical ideas in classroom
settings with middle and high school students. The nine secondary preservice teachers improved both their understanding and
enactment of inquiry and nature of science throughout the program period. This study provides evidence of the importance of
incorporating multiple low-stakes practicum experiences that are closely tied to methods course goals that are highly scaffolded
through both methods instructor and cooperating teacher support and tied to analytic self-reflection. 相似文献
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Andreas Nehring Kathrin H. Nowak Annette Upmeier zu Belzen Rüdiger Tiemann 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(9):1343-1363
Research on predictors of achievement in science is often targeted on more traditional content-based assessments and single student characteristics. At the same time, the development of skills in the field of scientific inquiry constitutes a focal point of interest for science education. Against this background, the purpose of this study was to investigate to which extent multiple student characteristics contribute to skills of scientific inquiry. Based on a theoretical framework describing nine epistemological acts, we constructed and administered a multiple-choice test that assesses these skills in lower and upper secondary school level (n?=?780). The test items contained problem-solving situations that occur during chemical investigations in school and had to be solved by choosing an appropriate inquiry procedure. We collected further data on 12 cognitive, motivational, and sociodemographic variables such as conceptual knowledge, enjoyment of chemistry, or language spoken at home. Plausible values were drawn to quantify students’ inquiry skills. The results show that students’ characteristics predict their inquiry skills to a large extent (55%), whereas 9 out of 12 variables contribute significantly on a multivariate level. The influence of sociodemographic traits such as gender or the social background becomes non-significant after controlling for cognitive and motivational variables. Furthermore, the performance advance of students from upper secondary school level can be explained by controlling for cognitive covariates. We discuss our findings with regard to curricular aspects and raise the question whether the inquiry skills can be considered as an autonomous trait in science education research. 相似文献
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Jeff C. Marshall Robert Horton Brent L. Igo Deborah M. Switzer 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(3):575-596
A survey instrument was developed and administered to 1,222 K-12 mathematics and science teachers to measure their beliefs
about and use of inquiry in the classroom. Four variables (grade level taught, content area taught, level of support received,
and self-efficacy for teaching inquiry) were significantly correlated to two dependent variables, percentage of time that
students are engaged in inquiry during a typical lesson and the perceived ideal percentage of instructional time that should
be devoted to inquiry. Specifically, elementary school teachers reported using inquiry-based practices more than either middle-school
or high-school teachers; similarly, elementary-school teachers believed such practices should be used more often. All groups,
however, reported believing in an ideal percentage of time devoted to inquiry instruction that was significantly greater than
their reported percentage of time actually spent on inquiry instruction. A disordinal effect was found between grade level
taught and content area taught; at the elementary level, science teachers reported both an ideal and actual percentage of
time on inquiry higher than those reported by the math teachers, while at the high school level math teachers reported both
an ideal and actual percentage of time on inquiry higher than those reported by the science teachers. No correlations were
found between typical and ideal percentage of time devoted to inquiry and subject matter content knowledge training, gender,
years of teaching experience, or maximum degree earned. 相似文献
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‘Grasp of Practice’ as a Reasoning Resource for Inquiry and Nature of Science Understanding 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Michael Ford 《Science & Education》2008,17(2-3):147-177
This article articulates how a ‘grasp of practice’ serves as a reasoning resource for inquiry and citizenship abilities associated with nature of science (NOS) understanding. Theoretically, this resource is elaborated through an overlapping concern with ‘practice’ in two literatures, science studies and psychology of learning, bringing attention to two key roles in scientific practice, Critiquers and Constructors of claims. Empirically, this resource is made plausible by the results of an expert-novice study and a classroom study. In the expert-novice study, reactions of scientists and laypeople to science-related claims in the popular media were contrasted, underlining the appropriate ways scientists tend to Critique such claims. In the classroom study, sixth-grade students engaged in a 2-week ramp experiment, experiencing first hand the roles of Critiquers and Constructors of claims, and were subsequently assessed with a novel experimental task. Performances suggest that students had attained a grasp of practice, going well beyond mere execution of methods or procedures. These results challenge a common assumption that declarative knowledge best characterizes learning targets for supporting inquiry and NOS understanding. 相似文献
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Emma S. Thacker John K. Lee Paul G. Fitchett Wayne Journell 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(4-5):193-200
While the use of inquiry-based instruction has been encouraged for many years, it continues to be the exception rather than the norm. The publication of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework, as well as the Inquiry Design Model that provides structure for its implementation, offer support for teachers to use inquiry in their social studies classrooms. This phenomenological study used semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and document analyses to explore three secondary social studies teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge as they planned and implemented inquiries. Findings indicate that teachers found a structured method of designing inquiries useful and that their approaches to planning and implementing those inquiries varied with individual context and personal pedagogical stances. There is no one-size-fits-all inquiry, even when teachers used the same support tool. 相似文献
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Argumentation, and the production of scientific arguments are critical elements of inquiry that are necessary for helping students become scientifically literate through engaging them in constructing and critiquing ideas. This case study employed a mixed methods research design to examine the development in 5th grade students’ practices of oral and written argumentation from one unit to another over 16 weeks utilizing the science writing heuristic approach. Data sources included five rounds of whole-class discussion focused on group presentations of arguments that occurred over eleven class periods; students’ group writings; interviews with six target students and the teacher; and the researcher’s field notes. The results revealed five salient trends in students’ development of oral and written argumentative practices over time: (1) Students came to use more critique components as they participated in more rounds of whole-class discussion focused on group presentations of arguments; (2) by challenging each other’s arguments, students came to focus on the coherence of the argument and the quality of evidence; (3) students came to use evidence to defend, support, and reject arguments; (4) the quality of students’ writing continuously improved over time; and (5) students connected oral argument skills to written argument skills as they had opportunities to revise their writing after debating and developed awareness of the usefulness of critique from peers. Given the development in oral argumentative practices and the quality of written arguments over time, this study indicates that students’ development of oral and written argumentative practices is positively related to each other. This study suggests that argumentative practices should be framed through both a social and epistemic understanding of argument-utilizing talk and writing as vehicles to create norms of these complex practices. 相似文献
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Paul A. Schutz 《教育心理学家》2014,49(1):1-12
Teaching, like other caring professions, is emotional. These emotions tend to emerge as teachers’ goals, standards, and beliefs transact with other classroom stakeholders during everyday school activities. As such, for teachers, the classroom context involves both the extreme happiness and joy from a lesson that goes as planned to the intense frustration of working with a challenging student. These academic emotions have garnered the attention of a growing number of researchers, and will be the focus of this article. More specifically, my goal is to summarize and extend our thoughts about the nature of research and our program of research related to teacher emotion. 相似文献
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Science & Education - The goal of this study was to explore the influencing factors of pre-service science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for targeted aspects of nature of... 相似文献
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Valarie L. Akerson J. Scott Townsend Lisa A. Donnelly Deborah L. Hanson Praweena Tira Orvil White 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(1):21-40
This paper summarizes the findings from a K-6 professional development program that emphasized scientific inquiry and nature
of science within the theme of scientific modeling. During the 2-week summer workshop and follow up school year workshops,
the instruction modeled a 5-E learning cycle approach. Pre and posttesting measured teachers’ views of nature of science,
inquiry, and scientific modeling. Teachers improved their views of nature of science (NOS) and inquiry by including scientific
modeling in their definitions of how scientists work, the empirical nature of science, and the role of observations and inferences
in science. Their definitions of science expanded from a knowledge-based orientation to a process-based orientation. Teachers
added the use of mathematical formulas to their views of scientific modeling. Using scientific modeling as the central theme
was effective in providing positive influence on teachers’ views of inquiry and NOS. 相似文献
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Huann-shyang Lin Zuway-R Hong Kuay-keng Yang Sung-Tao Lee 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(18):3095-3116
This study investigates the impact of collaborative reflections on teachers’ inquiry teaching practices and identifies supportive actions relating to their professional development. Three science teachers in the same elementary school worked as a cooperative and collaborative group. They attended workshops and worked collaboratively through observing colleagues’ teaching practices and discussing with university professors about their own inquiry teaching. The pre- and post-treatment classroom observations and comparisons of their teaching reveal that the three teachers were more focussed on asking inquiry-oriented questions in the post-treatment teaching. With additional qualitative data analysis, this study identified supportive resources of professional development. Workshop training sessions and sample unit served as the initiative agent in the beginning stage. Discussions with peers and reflective observation of peer teaching acted as a facilitative agent. Finally, student responses and researchers’ on-site visit comments worked as a catalytic agent for their professional development. 相似文献
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Developing students’ skills to pose and respond to questions and actively engage in inquiry behaviours enables students to problem solve and critically engage with learning and society. The aim of this study was to analyse the impact of providing teachers with an intervention in inquiry pedagogy alongside inquiry science curriculum in comparison to an intervention in non-inquiry pedagogy alongside inquiry science curriculum on student questioning and other inquiry behaviours. Teacher participants in the comparison condition received training in four inquiry-based science units and in collaborative strategic reading. The experimental group, the community of inquiry (COI) condition, received training in facilitating a COI in addition to training in the same four inquiry-based science units. This study involved 227 students and 18 teachers in 9 primary schools across Brisbane, Australia. The teachers were randomly allocated by school to one of the two conditions. The study followed the students across years 6 and 7 and students’ discourse during small group activities was recorded, transcribed and coded for verbal inquiry behaviours. In the second year of the study, students in the COI condition demonstrated a significantly higher frequency of procedural and substantive higher-order thinking questions and other inquiry behaviours than those in the comparison condition. Implementing a COI within an inquiry science curriculum develops students’ questioning and science inquiry behaviours and allows teachers to foster inquiry skills predicated by the Australian Science Curriculum. Provision of inquiry science curriculum resources alone is not sufficient to promote the questioning and other verbal inquiry behaviours predicated by the Australian Science Curriculum. 相似文献