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Jeong, Heisawn; Songer, Nancy B.; Lee, Soo-Young – Research in Science Education, 2007
With the growing emphasis on the development of scientific inquiry skills, there is a strong need for more research on students' ability to collect and interpret evidence. This paper calls attention to the notion of evidentiary competence that refers to the concepts and reasoning skills involved in the collection, organization, and interpretation…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Investigations, Science Instruction, Comprehension
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Hakkarainen, Kai – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
The problem addressed in the study was whether 10- and 11-year-old children, collaborating within a computer-supported classroom, could engage in progressive inquiry that exhibits an essential principal feature of mature scientific inquiry: namely, engagement in increasingly deep levels of explanation. Technical infrastructure for the study was…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teacher Guidance, Scientific Concepts, Intentional Learning