In order for teachers to implement inquiry-based teaching practices, they must have experienced inquiry-based learning especially during science content and methods courses. Although the impacts of inquiry-based instruction on various cognitive and affective domains have been studied and documented little attention has been paid to "how"…

This document describes the construction, implementation, and implication of selected high inference measures applied in a study of teacher effectiveness in the third, fourth, and fifth grades. Selected independent variables served as hypotheses regarding which behaviors are likely to occur during concept instruction and which are likely to be…

As a result of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), instructional content and style were studied in six teachers teaching the concept of photosynthesis. The same BSCS curriculum program was used by all six teachers; all six had some previous BSCS training. The students in the six classes had been selected on the basis of high ability…