developing children’s reasoning and inquiry, concept analysis, and meaningmaking skills through the community of inquiry

Developing inquiry skills through scaffolded use of a simulation

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Paper or Poster Presentation Abstract Teaching students the skills of planning and interpreting experiments is difficult. Students tend to focus on obtaining desired outcomes rather than on understanding causes and effects. Inquiry skills are increasingly important for students entering the health professions who may later conduct large-scale research s...

Developing Sixth Graders’ 1 Running head: DEVELOPING INQUIRY SKILLS TO CONSTRUCT EXPLANATIONS Developing Sixth Graders’ Inquiry Skills to Construct Explanations in Inquiry-based Learning Environments

An inquiry into the concept of information poverty

Background and Aim: The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of information poverty, its levels and its causes in society    Methods: The article is a review-analytical paper.  Results: The findings show that information poverty is part of the larger problem of poverty and results from socioeconomic, educational and infrastructural issues. Information poverty can be discussed at mac...

wuthering heights and the concept of marality/a sociological study of the novel

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...