John Dewey (1859-1952) was one of the foremost developers of American Pragmatism. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, he took the open, experimental, and practical nature of technoscientific inquiry to be the paradigmatic example of all inquiry. For Dewey, all inquiry is similar in form to techno scientific inquiry in that it is fallibilistic, resolves in practice some initial ...

This paper is aimed at elucidating the current state of inquiry-based science education (IBSE) in Zambia’s high school science curriculum. Therefore, we investigated Zambian teachers’ conceptions of inquiry; determined inquiry levels in the national high school science curriculum materials, which include syllabi, textbooks and practical exams; and determined the extent to which inquiry tasks an...

This study stemmed from concerns among researchers that reform efforts grounded in promoting inquiry as the basis for teaching science have not achieved the desired changes in American science classrooms. Many science teachers assume that they are employing inquirybased strategies when they use cookbook investigations with highly structured step-by-step instructions. Additionally, most science ...

Studies comparing virtual and physical manipulative environments (VME and PME) in inquiry-based science learning have mostly focused on students’ learning outcomes but not on the actual processes they engage in during the learning activities. In this paper, we examined experimentation strategies in an inquiry activity and their relation to conceptual learning outcomes. We assigned college stude...

This research applies cognitive science to the development and study of computer-based scientific inquiry learning. A scientific inquiry software program designed in the domain of elementary hydrology was adapted for mental model reasoning research, and tested in two middle school science classes. The study explores how qualitative mechanistic cues about system factors influence mental animatio...

The basic concepts of inquiry systems have long been applied to business systems, including behavior and management systems, environmental structures, public policy and ethical issues. Most of these concepts have, however, been applied to an historical knowledge of inquiry systems; or, as in the case of technology and information systems, have presented mainly mathematical calculations and form...