The answer to massification in higher education lies not in paper-behind-glass style e-learning. Such courses lack the necessary interaction to ensure success. There are perceived upper limits to where e-learning can be up scaled to accommodate large classes. The Community of Inquiry framework provides a convenient instrument to assess the quality…

Promoting the development of students' scientific inquiry capabilities is a major learning objective in science education. As a result, teachers require effective assessment approaches to evaluate students' scientific inquiry-related performance. Teachers must also be able to offer appropriate supplementary instructions, as needed, to students.…

The Alice/Collaborative Inquiry Testbed ("Alice Testbed") is one of four testbeds designed to demonstrate the educational potential of telecommunications. Their long term goal is to establish the effectiveness of Network Science and to develop key aspects of the technical, human, and conceptual infrastructure necessary to scale up…

The inquiry approach to learning and teaching is explored rather thoroughly in this article. Although it relates the concept to social studies, readers will find that its meaningfulness extends further since most of the new curricula in science and mathematics recommend the inquiry approach. (Editor)

The reconstructive approach deals with problem solving in the social studies and particularly with the formulation of policy questions which would be examined with respect to their desireability and feasibility. In this article the author rebuts criticism of his handbook outlining the reconstructivist model for inquiry. (JH)

Paper presented at the 1968 Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers (CASMT) Convention, St. Louis, Missouri

This study was designed to investigate (a) the feasibility of modifying an existing question classification scheme for use in measuring the inquiry level of teachers' questions and (b) the relationship between the inquiry level of teacher questioning and student achievement. Data for the study were collected from three specific classroom…

Validity and reliability data for the first three of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) tests of the inquiry skills of secondary school biology students are tabulated and discussed. Two of the tests, Explorations in Biology (EIB) numbers 1 and 3, and SE 011 334, SE 011 335, SE 011 336, and SE 011 337 meet minimum criterion…

Citation frequency and the opinion of faculty in New York University's School of Education were used to determine 52 authors who were influential in advocating the use of inquiry methods between 1960 and 1970. Each writer's principles of inquiry were classified in terms of Dewey's "phases of reflective thought" and their statements concerning the…

This review describes some of the main research findings and issues that center around teachers' use of questions in classroom instruction. The paper is divided into sections dealing with: (1) the classification of questions by type, (2) teachers' questioning practices, (3) effects of teachers' questions on students' behavior, (4) students'…

With the encouragement of parents and teachers, many young people would raise more questions than they typically do about nature. Examples of questions about animals which might lead to creative, thought-provoking discussions and explorations are offered. (CB)

Provides reflections on the characteristics of a 'community of inquiry' and how it is formed with elementary school children. (JDH)

A theoretical framework describing second-order philosophical processes that can be productive for human movement studies is presented. The processes of edification and theory building can clarify issues, expand viewpoints, and establish systematic ways of dealing with a phenomenon, leading to the more mature forms of dialogues and theories. (MT)

One of the current interpretive approaches in social science research is that of the German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's dialectical hermeneutics sees interpretation as being grounded in an understanding that is historical, dialectical, and linguistic. Describes the author's use of this method in an art education research project.…