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Li, Haiying; Gobert, Janice; Dickler, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2019
Prior studies on scaffolding for investigative inquiry practices (i.e. forming a question/hypothesis, collecting data, and analyzing and interpreting data [21]) revealed that students who received scaffolding were better able to both learn practices and transfer these competencies to new topics than were students who did not receive scaffolding.…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Questioning Techniques, Performance Factors, Active Learning
Cavicchi, Elizabeth; Hughes-McDonnell, Fiona – 2001
School students, and their teachers, seldom have opportunities to investigate something in nature. Yet children's development, as perceived by Piaget, and historical scientists' learning, involves investigation. We acted to include these investigative responses and historic resources into our work with new science teachers. We did this in the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Inquiry, Investigations