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Embedding eight research skills into regular subject lessons through subject-specific task lists

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Description

The article maps each of eight research skills onto concrete tasks in regular elementary subjects: mathematics, native language, literary reading, environment and technology. For example, the ability to see the problem is practiced in mathematics by finding text with excessive or insufficient content, in native language by composing a story as solving a problem, and in environment by observing natural phenomena. The ability to structure materials is practiced by making plans of text and representing data in tables and diagrams. This pattern operationalizes research-skill formation inside existing subject teaching rather than in a separate course.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Tasks must be selected so that each subject's ordinary content exercises a named research skill such as hypothesizing, questioning, classifying or proving

Constraints

  • The task lists are illustrative content specifications for elementary-school subjects in the Russian curriculum context

Target Learners

  • junior pupils aged 7-11 in elementary school

Learning Goals

  • seeing problems, proposing hypotheses, asking questions, classifying, structuring materials, making discourse, proving ideas, representing results

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Key Sources

  • Sabirova, E. G., Zakirova, V. G. & Masalimova, A. R. (2016). Development of Junior Pupils Research Skills in Interrelation with Universal Learning Activities. International Journal of Environmental & Science Education, 11(4), 505-514.
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title Embedding eight research skills into regular subject lessons through subject-specific task lists
description The article maps each of eight research skills onto concrete tasks in regular elementary subjects: mathematics, native language, literary reading, environment and technology.
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