Asking questions is a valued scientific practice: all 23 experts agreed it is a key aspect of scientific research¶

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q2 i? Asking questions is identified as a key scientific practice in NGSS and AAPT introductory lab goals, and 100% of the 23 experts agreed it is a key aspect of scientific research. → Zwickl 2013

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Zwickl 2013¶

Zwickl, B. M., Hirokawa, T., Finkelstein, N., & Lewandowski, H. J. (2013). Development and results from a survey on students views of experiments in lab classes and research. https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5760 doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.5760

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The article's argument that E-CLASS measures something instructors care about, citing expert consensus data collected for validation. The authors state the survey "is measuring something of importance to the science education community."

"asking questions has been identified as a key scientific practice in the Next Generation Science Standards for K-12 [12], in the AAPT goals for the introductory lab [10], and is a key aspect of scientific research (100% of the 23 experts agreed)."

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