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van Riesen, Siswa; Gijlers, Hannie; Anjewierden, Anjo; de Jong, Ton – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
Inquiry learning is an educational approach in which learners actively construct knowledge and in which performing investigations and conducting experiments is central. To support learners in designing informative experiments we created a scaffold, the Experiment Design Tool (EDT), that provided learners with a step-by-step structure to select…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Experiments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Mulder, Yvonne G.; Lazonder, Ard W.; de Jong, Ton – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Inquiry learning environments increasingly incorporate modelling facilities for students to articulate their research hypotheses and (acquired) domain knowledge. This study compared performance success and scientific reasoning of university students with high prior knowledge (n = 11), students from senior high-school (n = 10), and junior…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Environment, Models, Prior Learning