Objective
The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of new technologies in supporting middle-school students' reflective inquiry practices in science. Specifically, the work concerns the design of an inquiry-based learning environment on the WWW and the examination of the role of learning scaffolds in encouraging students' meta-cognitive reasoning with scientific data. The ability to reason with scientific data is extremely important in today's society. Inquiry is seen as a way to enculturate students into the world of science, by engaging them in activities that resemble authentic scientific practices. However, we know that students need to be meta-cognitively supported in order to engage in inquiry.
The proposed work will use prior research to design a web-based learning environment to support students' reflective inquiry, consisting of two parts: the first, will be a web-based inquiry investigation of authentic scientific data. The second will be a reflective workspace, where students can organize snapshots of the data to use as evidence. Students will also be encouraged to respond to articulation prompts embedded in the web pages, asking them to consider the relationship between the data and their hypotheses and guiding them in constructing detail ed explanations. We will assess the role of new technologies in supporting the construction of evidence-based explanations, collecting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data from three classes of students, working in authentic classroom environments under the following conditions: a) web-based inquiry with reflective supports; b) inquiry investigation with paper-based reflective supports; c) inquiry investigation with no reflective support.
It is hoped that with the support of this MC IRG, the researcher will be able to transfer knowledge acquired during her research in the USA to develop an innovative web-based learning environment and pursue further research within the EU.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences educational sciences didactics
- social sciences educational sciences pedagogy inquiry based learning
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-12
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IRG - Marie Curie actions-International re-integration grants
Coordinator
NICOSIA
Cyprus
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