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Conceptual model of inquiry-based instruction as interacting student, teacher, and social-cultural components

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description

The article's Figure 1 model represents inquiry-based instruction as a set of interactions: significant student-to-student interaction in which learners draw on each other's experiences, student-to-teacher contact in which the teacher acts as facilitator, and teacher preparation, skill, and knowledge. As the article states, "The model represents the interactions taking place in an inquiry–based classroom." The model guided the study's measurement of the inquiry method's effectiveness for knowledge-based achievement.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teachers must facilitate learning, have a strong foundation, and know where to guide students to find required information, though they need not know all potentially correct answers

Constraints

  • The model was used to guide one quasi-experimental study in secondary agriscience classrooms

Target Learners

  • high school agriscience students

Learning Goals

  • science content knowledge achievement
  • communication with peers of different backgrounds

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Thoron, A. C., & Myers, B. E. (2011). Effects of Inquiry–based Agriscience Instruction on Student Achievement. Journal of Agricultural Education, 52(4). https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2011.04175
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title Conceptual model of inquiry-based instruction as interacting student, teacher, and social-cultural components
description The article's Figure 1 model represents inquiry-based instruction as a set of interactions: significant student-to-student interaction in which learners draw on each other's experiences, student-to-teacher contact in...
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