Compared were the effects of open-ended experiments and closely directed laboratory experiments in high school physics on concept comprehension, laboratory performance, and achievement in problem solving. Test instruments for evaluating concept comprehension and problem solving were constructed from relevant items in the New York Regents Physics…

Project Interweave, a 3-year federally funded pilot project, not only provides inservice education for Illinois teachers in District 63, but also endeavors to train a number of teachers to assist participating schools with any type of inservice program. During the project's first year (1967-68), television lessons, which had been planned during…

Experimental materials designed to increase the proficiency of instructional questionning were utilized by ten juniors enrolled in a social studies methods course at Ohio University during the spring 1971 term. These ten students and a control group of 20, also juniors enrolled in the same social studies methods course, were observed during a…

This study surveys the use of questions in the classroom over a fifty-year period. It reveals that the main trend has been the development of techniques to describe questions used by teachers. The present state of research knowledge deals with the incidence of teachers' questions, the relative frequencies with which various types of questions are…

The central questions to be asked in elementary social studies are: how do human beings behave?; why do they behave the way they do?; and who am I? (Author/JC)

Three experiments were performed in an attempt to integrate ideas and methods developed to study problem solving with those developed specifically to study children's inquiry strategies. (Author/JMB)

Claims "why" questions are asked out of curiosity or criticism. Discusses eight methods of answering (appealing to authority, tradition, popularity, practicality, or feelings, admitting ignorance, turning the question back, and addressing reasons). Argues that "why" sits at the very heart of learning. (SR)

Suggests that good teaching, like good parenting, allows students to take responsibility for their own problems (writing, behavioral) and by extension their own ideas, the goal being maturity of thought. (JAD)

In this introductory inquiry study, teachers will explore why the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Reading Initiative is developed from the theoretical position of "teaching as inquiry." Teachers will live through several learning projects, identify important issues in practitioners' teaching lives, and read the work of…

Does one sex explore more than the other? Is one sex more curious than the other? That's a tough question to answer definitively. We know that we explore in varying degrees. Whether sociological or biological, good or bad, this investigation attempts to determine if there are substantive differences in acting upon inquisitiveness between genders.…

A study was sponsored by the U.S. National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) amid the enthusiasm for bringing the power of rigorous, objective, scientific understanding to bear on improving decisions about educational programming and thus student achievement. There is…

For students to develop a more realistic picture of how scientists practice science, there must be well-researched understanding of how scientists do science. A model for the process of scientific inquiry that more closely reflects actual scientific practices can provide a means of dispelling some of the myths about scientific inquiry. This paper…

Recent advances in computer technologies have provided new tools for accessing complex data for classroom inquiry. The effectiveness of these tools for learning depends on the extent to which students learn to engage them reflectively. From an analysis of the design of an earth science inquiry unit using complex datasets, the authors (researchers…

The follow-up question is a teaching technique used to probe the students mind and make him think more. It is a way to reap the greatest benefit from participation by students. It also can help handle the bright student. (DS)