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The purpose of this mixed‐method study was to investigate the changes in high school students' perceptions of fluency with innovative technologies (IT) and the levels of students' scientific inquiry abilities as a result of engaging students in long‐term scientific research projects focusing on community‐based environmental issues. Over a span of 3 years, a total of 125 ninth‐ through twelfth‐grade students participated in this study. A project‐specific Likert‐scale survey consisting of three parts (fluency with All Technologies, GPS/GIS, and CBL2/EasyData) was administered to all students as a pre‐ and post‐test. At the end of the study, 45 students were randomly interviewed and asked to elaborate on the changes in their perceptions of fluency with IT. The results indicated statistically significant increases (p < 0.001) in students' perceptions of their fluency with IT. Qualitative analysis of students' interview results corroborated the statistical findings of students' changes in perceptions of their fluency with IT. Students' research papers based on the environmental studies conducted at the interface of classroom and community were analyzed using the Scientific Inquiry Rubrics, which consist of 11 criteria developed by the researchers. Results indicated the students' abilities to conduct scientific inquiry for 7 out of 11 criteria were at the proficient level. This study clearly points to the correlation between the development of IT fluency and ability levels to engage in scientific inquiry based on respective competencies. Ultimately, this research study recommends that students' IT fluency ought to be developed and assessed concurrently with an emphasis on contemporary higher order scientific inquiry abilities. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 48: 94–116, 2011 相似文献
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Gareth Parry 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(3):225-241
In establishing a National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education in the United Kingdom (the Dearing Committee), the Government expected short-term problems and long-term developments to be examined in less than half the average time taken by previous inquiries. Conscious of the intellectual authority of its predecessor, the Robbins Committee, the Dearing inquiry commissioned a large number of research and analytical studies to inform its deliberations. The ways that research and other forms of evidence were collected and considered by the inquiry are discussed in relation to four themes: the context and conditions for the inquiry; the nature of the work commissioned; the treatment of public evidence and the use of research to inform key recommendations; and what the episode disclosed about the relationship between education research and policy-making in higher education. In the course of this commentary, it is suggested that the uneven engagement with research and academic literatures in the Dearing inquiry was not simply a function of its terms and conditions of existence, but reflected more general features of the contemporary research base and policy environment in higher education. 相似文献
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Joseph Ireland James J. Watters J. Lunn Brownlee Mandy Lupton 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(10):1733-1750
Learning science through the process of inquiry is advocated in curriculum documents across many jurisdictions. However, a number of studies suggest that teachers struggle to help students engage in inquiry practices. This is not surprising as many teachers of science have not engaged in scientific inquiry and possibly hold naïve ideas about what constitutes scientific inquiry. This study investigates teachers' self-reported approaches to teaching science through inquiry. Phenomenographic interviews undertaken with 20 elementary teachers revealed teachers identified six approaches to teaching for inquiry, clustered within three categories. These approaches were categorized as Free and Illustrated Inquiries as part of an Experience-centered category, Solution and Method Inquiries as part of a Problem-centered category, and Topic and Chaperoned Inquiries as part of a Question-centered category. This study contributes to our theoretical understanding of how teachers approach Inquiry Teaching and suggests fertile areas of future research into this valued and influential phenomenon broadly known as ‘Inquiry Teaching'. 相似文献
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国内外科学教育领域关于探究教学的研究存在概念界定模糊和无有效评价工具等问题。美国国家科学基金会在探究综述项目中,制定了探究教学的操作定义和简单的分析框架,有研究者提出了用来评价课堂探究教学的多维分析框架,这两部分研究工作可供我国科学探究教学研究借鉴。建议在已有实证研究的基础上,进一步明确探究教学的特征和元素,设计适合我国国情的课堂探究教学分析框架。 相似文献
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程志宏 《合肥教育学院学报》2011,(5):127-130
探究性学习是幼儿的一种新的学习方式,它是以探究的方式进行科学活动,也是一个学习过程,它提倡幼儿在教师的指导下,以实际体验去发现问题、探究问题、解决问题,从而体验探究的乐趣,养成探究的态度和精神。幼儿的探究性活动大致可以分为四个过程：创设探究主题—引导幼儿进行探究—幼儿相互交流探究成果—教师进行正确评价。针对探究性学习的不同过程,教师要采取不同的策略。 相似文献
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The emphasis on scientific inquiry has increased the importance in developing the fundamental abilities to conduct scientific investigations and urged a need for valid assessments of students' inquiry abilities. We took advantage of the advanced technology to develop a simulation-based assessment of inquiry abilities (SAIA) that allowed students to generate scientific explanations and demonstrate their experimental abilities. This paper describes the validation of the assessment. Data were collected from 48 12th-grade students at a local high school who were categorized into three groups based on their program majors. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were utilized to validate SAIA. The quantitative results showed that SAIA was aligned with a validated reasoning-skill test (criterion-related validity), discriminated variance among different groups (construct validity), and was highly suitable for examining inquiry abilities (content validity). Additionally, we utilized the think-aloud technique in order to identify the performances exhibited by students while they accomplished the SAIA tasks. The protocol analysis indicated that in general, students demonstrated the expected abilities in SAIA and that their SAIA scores accurately reflected their performance levels of inquiry abilities. The results suggested that SAIA was a valid assessment for evaluating the inquiry abilities of high school students. This study also provided systemic strategies for validating simulation-based assessments. 相似文献
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谷生华 《重庆第二师范学院学报》2005,18(2):74-76
基础教育课程改革强调探究性学习,但一些研究存在着偏差,没有处理好探究性学习与相关问题的关系,如强调培养探究性能力,忽视培养探究性意识,强调探究性学习,否定接受性学习,强调探究学习疑问,忽视探究学习收获,强调科学性探究,忽视学习性探究等,也没有考虑到根据基础教育阶段学生年龄特征不同,能力特征不同而提出不同的探究要求.本文拟对此提出自己的观点. 相似文献
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Lucinda Kerawalla Karen Littleton Eileen Scanlon Ann Jones Mark Gaved Trevor Collins 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(6):497-515
Student engagement in the design and implementation of inquiries is an effective way for them to learn about the inquiry process and the domain being studied. However, inquiry learning in geography can be challenging for teachers and students due to the complexity of scientific inquiry and the diversity of pupils' and teachers' knowledge and abilities. To address this, the Personal Inquiry project has designed a tool kit that includes nQuire, a Web-based tool to support students through the inquiry process. Here, we identify when, across five lessons comprising an inquiry into microclimates, nQuire was used by a teacher and a case study group of her 12 to 13-year-old students, and the ways in which they adopted nQuire as a tool to facilitate the creation of a coherent and cumulative inquiry learning experience over time. We found that students' use of nQuire supported them in capturing and representing their evolving understanding of inquiry, in defining and supporting their progression through the process of inquiry and in resourcing their cognitive engagement in data interpretation and representation. nQuire supported the students in accumulating and integrating new understandings across contexts and over time. In this way, nQuire successfully resourced and supported the students' learning journeys or trajectories. We conclude that nQuire can be an effective tool for supporting teachers' and students' understanding of the nature of inquiry and how to design and implement inquiries of their own. 相似文献
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预审制度是在法院正式开庭审判前对刑事案件进行的预备性审查,以决定是否起诉或正式开庭审判的制度。法、意、英、美四国的预审制度在设置和改革中既有自身特色又各有侧重。通过对四国预审制度发展的分析比较,总结它们预审改革中相同的价值追求,即追求程序公正、诉讼效率和人权保障。 相似文献
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In this paper, we present a review of research into the problems of implementing authentic scientific inquiry curricula in
schools and the emerging use of educational Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) to support interactive scientific inquiry
practices. Our analysis of existing literature in this growing area of study reveals three recurrent themes: (1) with careful
design and inclusion of virtual inquiry tools, MUVE-based curricula can successfully support real-world inquiry practices
based on authentic interactivity with simulated worlds and tools, (2) Educational MUVEs can support inquiry that is equally
compelling for girls and boys, and (3) research on student engagement in MUVE-based curricula is uneven. Based on these themes,
we suggest that future large-scale research should investigate (1) the extent to which MUVE-based inquiry learning can be
a viable substitute for the activities involved in real-world inquiry; (2) the impact of MUVEs on learning and engagement
for currently underserved students, and (3) the impact on engagement and learning of individual aspects of MUVE environments,
particularly virtual experimentation tools designed to scaffold student inquiry processes and maintain engagement. Additionally,
we note that two identified issues with integrating scientific inquiry into the classroom are currently not addressed by MUVE
research. We urge researchers to investigate whether (1) MUVE-based curriculum can help teachers meet state and national standards
with inquiry curricula; and (2) scientific inquiry curricula embedded in MUVE environments can help teachers learn how to
integrate interactive scientific inquiry into their classroom.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0310188. Any opinions, findings,
and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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基于工作单的科学探究能力评价的有效性研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
罗国忠 《课程.教材.教法》2007,27(11)
分别用现场观察和工作单来评价178名初三学生的科学探究能力,以研究工作单对现场观察的替代性,即工作单对科学探究能力评价的有效性。研究发现,工作单的三个探究任务,甚至一个探究任务,或工作单三个探究任务的进行实验要素集合、概括结论要素集合能替代现场观察等。这些发现表明了工作单能有效替代现场观察,意味着工作单能有效评价科学探究能力。 相似文献
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我国基础教育各门课程均强调科学探究,但对科学探究的界定却不甚明了,以致一些研究者片面强调学生与科学家的相似性以及学生的自主探究。通过国际研究发现,受学生认知水平、班额大小和课时等内外因素的影响,学生的科学探究需要在教师指导下进行,其指导程度应根据实际情况进行调整。 相似文献
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科学探究学习是创新教育的重要途径和科学学习的主要途径。模拟软件在创设自主探究学习环境和有效引导探究活动两个方面促进科学探究学习,涉及探究对象动态视觉化表征的作用、类型和方式;可操纵情境和关联的表征物在科学探究中的作用;模拟环境中科学探究活动的程序,探究活动中的指导。 相似文献
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We present a method for assessing science inquiry performance, specifically for the inquiry skill of designing and conducting experiments, using educational data mining on students' log data from online microworlds in the Inq-ITS system (Inquiry Intelligent Tutoring System; www.inq-its.org). In our approach, we use a 2-step process: First we use text replay tagging, a type of rapid protocol analysis in which categories are developed and, in turn, used to hand-score students' log data. In the second step, educational data mining is conducted using a combination of the text replay data and machine-distilled features of student interactions in order to produce an automated means of assessing the inquiry skill in question; this is referred to as a detector. Once this detector is appropriately validated, it can be applied to students' log files for auto-assessment and, in the future, to drive scaffolding in real time. Furthermore, we present evidence that this detector developed in 1 scientific domain, phase change, can be used—with no modification or retraining—to effectively detect science inquiry skill in another scientific domain, density. 相似文献
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探究性学习是让学生在教师的指导下像科学家“做研究”一样,通过科学探究的过程自主构建知识体系的教学方式。然而,目前高校开展的探究性学习大多浮于表面、流于形式,没有实现真正意义上的探究过程。影响探究性学习有效性的因素有学生的认知基础与主体地位、教学设计与教学实施、探究学习的环境与资源、技术工具、评价方法等。通过引导学生进行充分的学习准备,保证高效的探究性学习;采用教学的“元认知”策略,提高学生的学习效率;提倡小组合作学习方式,促进学习者的全面发展;科学制定教学评价标准,通过经验反思促进学习巩固;加强信息技术与教学的整合,可以提高高校探究性学习的有效性。 相似文献
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张玮 《武汉工程职业技术学院学报》2006,18(2):58-61
研究性学习已经成为培养学生创新精神和实践能力的一种重要途径和栽体。根据研究性学习的涵义和特点、网络环境下研究性学习实施方略，在大学英语教学中开展研究性学习的实践，证明研究性学习不仅能提高学生英语语言应用能力，还能培养学生的科学研究能力、自主学习能力和团队合作精神，同时指出基于研究性学习的大学英语评价体系有待进一步完善。 相似文献
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Despite the importance of scientific inquiry in science education, researchers and educators disagree considerably regarding what features define this instructional approach. While a large body of literature addresses theoretical considerations, numerous empirical studies investigate scientific inquiry on quite different levels of detail and also on different theoretical grounds. Here, only little systematic research has analysed the different conceptualisations and usages of the overarching construct of scientific inquiry in detail. To close this gap, a review of the research literature on scientific inquiry was conducted based on a widespread approach to defining scientific inquiry as activities that students engage in. The main goal is to provide a systematic overview about the range and spectrum of definitions and operationalisations used with regard to single activities of the inquiry process in empirical studies. The findings from the review first and foremost illustrate the variability in the ways these activities have been operationalised and implemented. For each activity, studies differ significantly not only with respect to the focus, explicitness and comprehensiveness of their operationalisations but also with regard to the consistency of their implementation in the form of instructional or interventional components in the study and/or in the focus of the assessment of student performance. This has significant implications regarding the validity and comparability of results obtained in different studies, e.g. in the context of discussions concerning the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction. In addition, the interrelation between scientific inquiry, scientific knowledge and the nature of science seems to be underexplored. The conclusions make the case for further theoretical work as well as empirical research. 相似文献
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Over the last two decades, science educators and science education researchers have grown increasingly interested in utilising insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) to inform their work and research. To date, researchers in science education have focused on two applications: results of sociological studies of science have been used to define new areas of content, generally referred to as Nature of Science (NOS). This has included research into students’ understanding of the NOS, teachers’ understanding of the NOS, and inclusion (or exclusion) of NOS themes in curricula. A second vein of inquiry has been investigations that consider the classroom as a microcosm of scientific discourse and inquiry. Such research has included investigations of student‐to‐student and student‐to‐teacher interactions. In this paper, we present a third application for educational research – the investigation of teacher knowledge and practice as sociological phenomena. In addition to supporting scholarly research, we believe it can be a useful tool for illuminating the complexities of teaching that needs to be taken into account by policy makers and practitioners. In this paper, we provide a thematic review of concepts from the sociology of scientific knowledge, and their application to a case of teacher work. 相似文献
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刘建良 《陕西教育学院学报》2014,(3):42-44
研究性学习的过程是一个德育过程。研究性学习承担着德育任务,具有明确的德育目标,强调发挥学生的积极主动性。通过研究性学习,可以改变传统学校德育的封闭性与局限性,拓宽德育的渠道,有助于培养学生的协调沟通能力,团结协作、不畏艰辛、刻苦钻研的进取精神和严谨求实的科学态度,有助于加深学生对自然科学价值的认识和对人与自然相互依存关系的理解,培养学生对国家和社会的责任感与使命感,形成科学的人生观与价值观。 相似文献