Proposes a multilevel-multifaceted approach to evaluating the impact of education reform on student achievement that would be sensitive to context and small treatment effects. Uses a different assessment based on students' proximity to the enacted curriculum. Indicates that close assessment were more sensitive to the changes in students' pre- to…

Reports on a project designed to develop an inquiry-based approach to curriculum and instruction in a general chemistry course. Reports that a major objective, met in various ways, was to develop a laboratory curriculum that meshes intimately with lecture. (Author/MM)

Analyzes articles published in "I Wonder", a publication designed to promote scientific discourse among elementary students, offers an overview of the journal as a tool for promoting authentic inquiry and examine scientific and engineering projects published by students. (Author/MM)

Discusses how the parents and students associated with the Center for Inquiry are well aware of the impact this teaching philosophy has on children, their learning, and their lives. Compiles brief accounts written by parents and students concerning how inquiry and a nurturing environment have meant in terms of achievement, self-esteem, and family…

Evaluates the effectiveness of teacher-scientist partnerships for increasing the use of inquiry in precollege classrooms. Indicates increased appreciation for inquiry, greater confidence in teaching using inquiry, and greater use of inquiry in the classroom. Suggests that collaborations between teachers and research scientists can positively…

Describes an ecological expedition documenting the development of African American community leaders in Chicago, showing how a collaborative research process between a university and the Developing Communities Project enhanced the quality of the documentation. Discusses the role of metaphors, which elaborated shared meanings of expressed…

Suggests that an examination of rhetorical practices at the local bar is instructive: (1) the barroom is predictably different from the university writing classroom; and (2) the barroom is surprisingly similar to the university writing classroom. Shows that the rhetoric that is valued most highly in today's writing classroom operates differently…

Presents a laboratory exercise designed to introduce students to the hemodynamic variables (heart rate, stroke volume, total peripheral resistance, and compliance) that alter arterial pressure. (Author/CCM)

Highlights and provides information about the grant awarded to Bismarck State College, Bismarck, North Dakota by the National Science Foundation (NSF). (ASK)

Presents a science activity that is a combination of guided-inquiry and open-inquiry in which students investigate crayfish. (YDS)

Reports on a study of participation, achievement, and attitude in cookbook and inquiry-based introductory biology laboratories through observations, interviews, and attitude/knowledge surveys. Participation differences between men and women disappeared in the inquiry-based laboratory. (Author/MM)

A study investigated transfer and maintenance of question-answering skills in five children (ages 3-7) with autism. After training using analogous question-answer exemplars, children were able to answer novel questions with complete sentences within each class (what, where, who, and why), and showed transfer of skills across persons, settings, and…

Information literacy standards for student learning, indicators for student performance, and hundreds of collaborative lesson plans around the country give some indication of the skills students are expected to master as effective and efficient users of information. Hopefully the goal is that all involved in information literacy education become…

In this paper, we explore Peirce's work for insights into a theory of learning and cognition for education. Our focus for this exploration is Peirce's paper The "Fixation of Belief" (FOB), originally published in 1877 in "Popular Science Monthly". We begin by examining Peirce's assertion that the study of logic is essential for understanding…

Is Bounty the "quicker picker-upper?" Are expensive shampoos better? Are all antacids the same? The authors' fourth-grade students posed and answered these questions and many more during their recent "Consumer Product Testing" unit in which they designed experiments to assess these products' qualities and learned to question the advertising that…