This study investigated the effectiveness of an in-service program for teachers focused on pupil questioning, to determine if the number as well as the variety of pupil questions in science classes could be made to increase, if there could be greater variety of verbal remarks preceding pupil questions as well as in responses to questions, and if…

This paper reports a study of the verbal behaviors of teachers who had participated in a program designed to enable them to exhibit behaviors which promote inquiry learning on the part of their students. Ten BSCS teachers participated in the study. Verbal behaviors occurring in inquiry situations were compared with those in noninquiry settings,…

The objective of this study was to assess changes in verbalized cognitive inquiry behaviors of teachers and students who participated in the McREL Instruction Staff Development Program in Inquiry. Twenty-four participating secondary teachers were videotaped before and after instruction. Teacher and student verbalized inquiry behaviors were coded…

A classification scheme for the affective domain in relation to science education is presented in this article to clarify student's affective behaviors and their representative phenomena. Discussion is made in connection with the content-objectives grid in the cognitive domain. An analogous grid for the affective domain is delineated by a…

Out of approximately 50 activities which were, for a variety of reasons, not included in the final version of the High School Geography Project course, Geography in an Urban Age, the HSGP staff selected eight which would be useful in many secondary school classrooms. The activities included here are: 1) Operation Bigger Beef (on themes of cultural…

This is the second in a series of reports of research and curriculum development in science education. This monograph contains 16 papers reporting on research studies related to curriculum implementation in elementary school science. The reports are titled as follows: The Educational Experience: Toward a Paradigm of Teacher Education; Development…

The booklet is designed as an introduction to a series of topics which use the same format, and which are published separately. A series of photographs of a snake eating an egg are used to ask students to identify a puzzling event that they would want to investigate if they were biologists. A scrambled programed text format is used to direct…

Two sections of students were randomly assigned to a lecture presentation, and one to an inquiry-oriented section in a course in electronics in a technical education program. The groups were shown to be equivalent on five measures of background and ability. At the end of the 11-week course, the inquiry group performed significantly better than the…

An evaluation of the laboratory science program developed in the Clover, South Carolina, Middle School produced the following results: (1) Although the general attitude toward science, according to the attitude scale, appeared to be declining in both groups, the experimental groups showed a more positive attitude toward science than did the…

Teaching geography as a system of inquiry to elementary and secondary students in the Alberta school system is justified in this paper, based upon the three related assumptions that geography has a structure that contributes significantly to social knowledge; has in the past often been misinterpreted; and could be an interesting part of the social…

Investigates relationships between question level, response level, and lapse time for a total of 238 questions asked by student teachers on the junior high and senior high levels. Classroom interactions were taped and questions dichotomized into memory (knowledge) and above memory (comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation)…

Presents a student centered science curriculum model utilizing inquiry strategy and language rich experiences to develop student skills of questioning, thinking, speaking, listening, and reading. (SL)

Examines whether elementary school children have the interest or ability to understand philosophy. Suggests that philosophical thinking among children should be encouraged and that it should take place in the terms and concepts of ordinary language with which children are comfortable. (Author/DB)

Analyzes a rationale for inquiry instruction in elementary social studies. Includes an evaluation of its intellectual origins, clarity, consistency, and coherence. For journal availability, see SO 506 245. (AV)

This discussion of thinking skills is designed to related historiographical meanings with the overall process of historical inquiry. Using the definitions provided as a guide, the history teacher can more adequately formulate questions and teaching objectives. (Author/RK)