Improving Higher Order Thinking Skills among freshmen by Teaching Science through Inquiry

A multi-user virtual environment for building and assessing higher order inquiry skills in science

This study investigated novel pedagogies for helping teachers infuse inquiry into a standards-based science curriculum. Using amulti-user virtual environment (MUVE) as a pedagogical vehicle, teams of middle-school students collaboratively solved problems around disease in a virtual town called River City. The students interacted with ‘avatars’ of other students, digital artefacts and computer-b...

A Multi-user virtual environment for building higher order inquiry skills in science

This National Science Foundation funded study is investigating novel pedagogies for helping teachers infuse inquiry into a standards-based science curriculum. Using a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) as a pedagogical vehicle, teams of middle school students are asked to collaboratively solve a simulated 19th century city’s problems with illness, through interaction with each others’ “avata...

Mathematical Knowledge and Higher Order Thinking Skills for Teaching Algebraic Problem Solving

Solving algebraic problems is a complex process that is influenced by various factors including teachers‟ instruction. The present intense interest in research on teachers‟ knowledge and proficiencies demands that future problem-solving research pay close attention to the mathematical and pedagogical knowledge and proficiencies a teacher should possess. This study explores the Prospective Mathe...

Teaching Thinking Skills

Needed : Better Methods for Testing Higher - Order Thinking Skills

T he task of designing a systematic program for testing and teaching higher order thinking skills is formidable, yet recent advances in the ory and research provide some basis for defining a core of fundamental skills and for designing exercises that require using such skills Since testing programs at the national, state, and local levels are being used to assess students' reasoning skills, the...