Citizen Inquiry forms a new method of informal science learning and aims to enable the engagement of citizens in online scientific investigations. Citizen Inquiry combines aspects from Citizen Science and Inquiry-based learning and is implemented through a community of practice where people having a shared interest interact and exchange knowledge and methods supported and guided by online syste...

Recent perspectives on learning encourage educators interested in technology based learning environments to reconsider their basic assumptions about teaching as "transmitting correct information." Instead we view the teaching and learning enterprise as helping students construct knowledge from domain relevant experiences. In this paper we report on the Probability Inquiry Environment (PIE), whi...

The Modeling Across the Curriculum Project (MAC; IERI # 0115699, Oct 2001–2006) used real-time assessments to facilitate student learning and model-based inquiry among high school students. We developed technology, materials, and processes that enabled us to monitor and respond to students’ actions. MAC learning activities engage students in a progressive model-building approach (Gobert, 2008; ...

We have built and evaluated software that supports students to reason about a phenomenon and develop hypotheses to explain it. The goal is for students to ask their own questions, engage in hypothesis generation and make and test predictions about theories. Intelligent tutoring and a discovery approach guide students’ inquiry in these problem-based modules. The inquiry infrastructure provides a...