Student Learning Through Inquiry

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...

Inquiry Using Analogies to Assess Student Learning

One of the most powerful pieces of knowledge that students can gain from the study of geology is an understanding of the immense scale of geologic time. In my introductory-level physical geology course at Northern Virginia Community College, we discuss geologic time about one-third of the way through the semester, after a thorough review of plate tectonics and the rock cycle. Because this subje...

Tracking Students' Inquiry Paths through Student Transition Analysis

In the Science Assistment project (http://users.wpi.edu/~sci_assistments/) we provide students with rich and dynamic opportunities to engage in inquiry while researchers and teachers use performance data as assessment indices of scientific inquiry skills and domain knowledge. Activities in the Science Assistment Project follow a pedagogical model known as the inquiry cycle, namely, explore, hyp...

Of Inquiry Student Cross

Student-oriented learning: an inquiry-based developmental biology lecture course.

In this junior-level undergraduate course, developmental life cycles exhibited by various organisms are reviewed, with special attention--where relevant--to the human embryo. Morphological features and processes are described and recent insights into the molecular biology of gene expression are discussed. Ways are studied in which model systems, including marine invertebrates, amphibia, fruit f...