The twin purposes of Guided Inquiry: Guiding student inquiry and evidencebased practice

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The research practice of practice research: theorizing and situational inquiry

An approach to practice research is presented. The main ideas of practice research is 1) to consider the empirical field in terms of practices, 2) to develop knowledge through situational inquiries into local operational practices based on problems and needs in such practices and 3) to contribute with abstract useful knowledge to general practice and research community. This means that practice...

- 1 - Scaffolding Student Inquiry with Collaborative Visualization

A well-documented problem with science education is that students are taught science as a set of solved problems from a textbook. They have minimal opportunity to experience the open-ended inquiry that characterizes the actual practice of science. The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) project is attempting to address this problem by providing students with the ability to cond...

Tracking Student Propositions in an Inquiry System

We built software to support student reasoning about a phenomenon and development of hypotheses to explain it. The goal is to engage students in asking questions, generating hypotheses and testing predictions. Rashi, an intelligent tutor, tracks students’ investigations (e.g., hypotheses, questions, data collection, and inferences) and helps articulate how evidence and theories are related. The...

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...