LEARNING THROUGH INQUIRY

Evaluating Inquiry Learning Through Recognition-Based Tasks

The Rashi inquiry learning environment for human biology was evaluated using a new instrument for assessing gains in scientific inquiry skills. The instrument was designed to be sensitive to the small pre-post skill gains that are hypothesized for short learning interventions. It is also designed to be scored with less effort than the verbal protocol analysis methods most often used to asses hi...

Exploring Inquiry-Based Learning Analytics through Interactive Surfaces

Learning Analytics is about collecting traces that learners leave behind and using those traces to improve learning. Dashboard applications can visualize these traces to present learners and teachers with useful information. The work in this paper is based on traces from an inquiry-based learning (IBL) environment, where learners create hypotheses, discuss findings and collect data in the field...

Learning through inquiry: student difficulties with online course-based Material

This study investigates the case-based learning experience of 133 undergraduate veterinarian science students. Using qualitative methodologies from relational Student Learning Research, variation in the quality of the learning experience was identified, ranging from coherent, deep, quality experiences of the cases, to experiences that separated significant aspects, such as the online case histo...

Developing academic information literacy for undergraduates through inquiry based learning

This paper describes the design and implementation of an information literacy module for first semester undergraduate students at Loughborough University. These students were taking Information Management and either Business Studies or Computing, or a degree in Publishing with English or Publishing with Ebusiness or Web Development and Design. The purpose of the module was to enable them to wor...

Orchestrating Inquiry Learning