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Dilara Yilmaz-Can; Birgül Damla Baber-Elbistan; Seyma Pekgöz; Ceyda Sensin – Online Submission, 2023
The development of students' mathematical problem-solving skills is contingent upon the approaches and methods employed by primary school teachers. This research endeavors to scrutinize the effectiveness of primary school teachers in their roles within the problem-solving process, with particular attention directed toward their inquiry techniques,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Elementary School Teachers
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Sen, Ceylan; Ay, Zeynep Sonay; Güler, Gürsel – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
This study investigated the effectiveness of inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach in ratio and proportion on the mathematics reasoning skill of seventh-grade students. The study was carried out in a seventh-grade mathematics course in a middle school located in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey during the 2016-2017 academic year. The IBL…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students
Marzano, Robert J.; Parsley, Danette; Gagnon, Douglas J.; Norford, Jennifer S. – Marzano Research, 2020
Teachers engaging in research has been discussed and carried out under the heuristics and methodologies of action research (Manfra, 2019; Pine, 2009). A typical action research project might involve an individual teacher studying the effectiveness of a specific instructional strategy like having students preview content before receiving direct…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Generalization
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Thomas, Gary – Harvard Educational Review, 2016
The past few years have seen a resurgence of faith in experimentation in education inquiry, and particularly in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Proponents of such research have succeeded in bringing into common parlance the term "gold standard," which suggests that research emerging from any other design frame fails to achieve the…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Best Practices
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Root, Jenny R.; Knight, Victoria F.; Mims, Pamela J. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Instruction in academic core content provides students with moderate to severe disabilities a full educational opportunity that promotes current and future options in the community and can complement acquisition of daily living skills. However, high school teachers face many challenges in balancing instructional priorities given the mission to…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Instructional Design
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Thomas, Gary – Harvard Educational Review, 2012
In this essay, Gary Thomas argues that education research repeatedly makes a mistake first noted by Dewey: it misunderstands our science. This misunderstanding has led to attempts to import various putatively scientific precepts into education inquiry. But in reality, he argues, those "scientific" precepts do not characterize scientific endeavor,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Scientific Methodology, Generalization, Inquiry
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2014
Paula Worth presents in this article a means of challenging students' tendency to generalise even when they know that they should not. How can teachers encourage their students to say something meaningful about the past while avoiding making unwarranted generalisations? Worth takes teachers through the process of planning her own enquiry designed…
Descriptors: Generalization, History Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Eisenmann, Petr; Novotná, Jarmila; Pribyl, Jirí; Brehovský, Jirí – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
The article reports the results of a longitudinal research study conducted in three mathematics classes in Czech schools with 62 pupils aged 12-18 years. The pupils were exposed to the use of selected heuristic strategies in mathematical problem solving for a period of 16 months. This was done through solving problems where the solution was the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Heuristics, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Pearson, Marion L.; Albon, Simon P.; Hubball, Harry – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Individuals and teams engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in multidisciplinary higher education settings must make decisions regarding choice of research methodology and methods. These decisions are guided by the research context and the goals of the inquiry. With reference to our own recent experiences investigating…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
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Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Gobert, Janice D.; Betts, Cameron G. – Grantee Submission, 2014
There are well-acknowledged challenges to scaling computerized performance-based assessments. One such challenge is reliably and validly identifying ill-defined skills. We describe an approach that leverages a data mining framework to build and validate a detector that evaluates an ill-defined inquiry process skill, designing controlled…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Inquiry, Science Process Skills
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Waring, Scott M.; Torrez, Cheryl; Lipscomb, George – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2015
As advocates of engaging students in historical inquiry and of the use of primary sources to aid in this inquiry, we support the claims of numerous student benefits, such as learning to detect bias, appreciating the interpretive nature of historical thinking, and the drawing of conclusions based on judgments about evidence (Fehn & Koeppen,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, History Instruction, Units of Study, Primary Sources
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Miller, Bridget; Doughty, Teresa; Krockover, Gerald – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
This study investigated the use of guided science inquiry methods with self-monitoring checklists to support problem-solving for students and increased autonomy during science instruction for students with moderate intellectual disability. Three students with moderate intellectual disability were supported in not only accessing the general…
Descriptors: Science Education, Problem Solving, Standards, Science Activities
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Murawska, Jaclyn M.; Zollman, Alan – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Although discussions about inductive reasoning can be traced back thousands of years (Fitelson 2011), the implementation of the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP) within the Common Core State Standards (CCSSI 2010) is generating renewed attention to how students learn mathematics. The third SMP, "Construct viable arguments and critique…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Mathematical Logic
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Thomas, Gary – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Arguments for the value of case study are vitiated by assumptions about the need for generalisation in the warrant of social scientific inquiry--and little generalisation is legitimate from case study, although an argument exists for the role of the case in the establishment of a form of generalisation in a certain kind of theory, a line of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Social Sciences, Generalization, Case Studies
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Miller, Bridget; Taber-Doughty, Teresa – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Three students with mild to moderate intellectual and multiple disability, enrolled in a self-contained functional curriculum class were taught to use a self-monitoring checklist and science notebook to increase independence in inquiry problem-solving skills. Using a single-subject multiple-probe design, all students acquired inquiry…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Self Management, Inquiry, Problem Solving
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