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Lu, Kaili; Pang, Feng; Shadiev, Rustam – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Collaborative inquiry-based learning (CIBL) is a notable instructional method used to nurture students' higher order thinking skills. Few studies, however, have examined the mediating effect of learning approach (i.e., deep approach and surface approach) as an essential component in collaborative inquiry-based learning and the association between…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning
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Wipaporn Sasanti; Chulida Hemtasin; Tawan Thongsuk – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
This analysis dissects a piece of information into its parts and determines how they interact in constructing a concept. This study focuses on enhancing the analytical thinking skills of grade 6 students in science and technology courses by implementing inquiry-based learning management. The aim is to meet the minimum requirement of 70 percent and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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Amin, Astuti Muh; Aloysius, Duran Corebima; Zubaidah, Siti; Mahanal, Susriyati – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2019
Questions serve as an element that can be used to access and stimulate students' thinking ability. This research aimed at analyzing the students' ability to pose Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions during the learning process. This research was a survey research using a descriptive quantitative approach. The samples used in the research…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Instruction, Biology, College Science
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Amin, Astuti Muh.; Corebima, Aloysius Duran; Zubaidah, Siti; Mahanal, Susriyati – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The empowerment of metacognitive skills has an important role in increasing the capacity of critical thinking and active control of students' cognitive processes in learning. Metacognitive skills can be enhanced through the implementation of learning strategies involving higher-order thinking. The RQA, ADI, RQA integrated with ADI are…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Critical Thinking, Correlation, Thinking Skills
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Shanmugavelu, Ganesan; Parasuraman, Balakrishnan; Ariffin, Khairi; Kannan, Baskaran; Vadivelu, Manimaran – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to discuss the use of the inquiry method in the teaching and learning process. The inquiry method is a student-centered learning approach with the concept of students who are actively involved in the teaching and learning activity under the monitoring and supervision of teachers. This study describes how to implement the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Student Centered Learning, Planning
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Mary Anne Peabody; Susan Noyes; Mary Anderson – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
Reflective practice is considered a highly valued graduate attribute in the field of occupational therapy. Occupational therapy educators influence and shape how students develop into reflective practitioners. Reflective practice requires a set of complex thinking skills that are typically focused on personal experiences and can be broken down…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Graduate Students, College Faculty, Reflection
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Ghosh, Subir – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2019
Pre-nursing students of an introductory Microbiology laboratory class, having learnt typical microbiological techniques during the semester, gained the confidence of conducting an inquiry-based project as part of their lab course work. Students cooperatively performed a microbiological analysis, to evaluate safety of sushi. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Microbiology, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction
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Renkl, Alexander – Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
In discussions about how to best foster principle-based cognitive skills, there are typically two points of dissent among researchers in the field of learning and instruction: First, should information be provided, as typical of direct instruction, or should this information be generated by the students, as typical of guided discovery or inquiry…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Concept Formation
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Häkkinen, Päivi; Järvelä, Sanna; Mäkitalo-Siegl, Kati; Ahonen, Arto; Näykki, Piia; Valtonen, Teemu – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
With regard to the growing interest in developing teacher education to match the twenty-first-century skills, while many assumptions have been made, there has been less theoretical elaboration and empirical research on this topic. The aim of this article is to present our pedagogical framework for the twenty-first-century learning practices in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Cooperative Learning
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Lin, Marcia C.; Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Rafferty, Anna; Vitale, Jonathan M. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Citizens need the capability to conduct their own inquiry projects so that they can make sense of claims about new energy policies, health remedies, or financial opportunities. To develop the lifelong capability to grapple with these dilemmas, we report on ways to design precollege units that engage students in realistic, personally relevant…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Inquiry, Learning Strategies, Constructivism (Learning)
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Tschaepe, Mark D. – Education and Culture, 2012
Dewey's conception of scientific explanation, which has been neglected by both philosophers of science and philosophers of education, facilitates overcoming the seeming divide between teaching a highly technical and specialized subject matter and encouraging students to successfully engage in the experience of being philosopher-scientists. By…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Philosophy, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Barzilai, Sarit; Zohar, Anat – Cognition and Instruction, 2012
This study examines epistemic thinking in action in order to shed light on the relation between students' personal epistemologies and their online learning practices. The study is based on observations of the learning behaviors of 6th-grade students (n = 38) during two online inquiry tasks. Data were collected through think-aloud protocols and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Protocol Analysis, Online Courses, Learning Strategies
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Hugerat, Muhamad; Kortam, Naji – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
Twenty-eight freshmen majoring in biology and/or chemistry in an Arab college in Israel, were given a pre-test and a post-test in which they had to identify the control group and design a controlled experiment. During the course an intervention was used. Science was taught by inquiry while using strategies that promote higher-order thinking skills…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Jones, Rachael Adams – Science Teacher, 2012
Too often, teachers scratch their heads and ask, "What were my students thinking?" then answer, "I don't want to know." But teachers should want to know, and students should question their own thinking, as well. Critical thinking involves not just problem solving, creativity, analysis, and synthesis but also self-awareness of learning and learning…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies, Critical Thinking, Misconceptions
Stein, Mary Kay; Smith, Margaret – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2011
Learn the 5 practices for facilitating effective inquiry-oriented classrooms: (1) Anticipating what students will do--what strategies they will use--in solving a problem; (2) Monitoring their work as they approach the problem in class; (3) Selecting students whose strategies are worth discussing in class; (4) Sequencing those students'…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
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