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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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Gijlers, Hannie; de Jong, Ton – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
In this study we investigate how prior knowledge influences knowledge development during collaborative discovery learning. Fifteen dyads of students (pre-university education, 15-16 years old) worked on a discovery learning task in the physics field of kinematics. The (face-to-face) communication between students was recorded and the interaction…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, High Achievement, Prior Learning, Learning Processes