{"id":14099,"date":"2015-01-16T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:20:53","slug":"inquiry-based-learning-what-does-research-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/inquiry-based-learning-what-does-research-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry Based Learning: What Does Research Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <strong>Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is an approach to education that places students&#8217; questions, ideas and observations at the center of the learning experience. Here\u2019s what research says about the effectiveness of this approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A research study was commissioned by the Einstein Project and conducted by the St. Norbert College Survey Center to <strong>evaluate the effectiveness of the inquiry-based Science and Technology for Children\u2122 (STC) in the teaching and learning of Science. <\/strong>The comparative study looked at whether students who used STC learned better than students who were taught using traditional textbook-driven curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Five classrooms that used <strong>STC units<\/strong> were compared to five classrooms with a <strong>traditional textbook approach,<\/strong> with all other denominators such as English proficiency, class size, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity and the number of students with disabilities being equal.<\/p>\n<p>Statistically, those <strong>students using STC in the Einstein Project showed a 4% increase in general Science knowledge<\/strong> between their pre and post-test scores compared to an only 1.7% increase in general Science knowledge for non-STC students. The conclusion was that inquiry-based classrooms produced students who were better able to perform tasks, investigate questions, classify, arrange, draw, label and describe scientific phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Research also indicates that using IBL can help <strong>students become more creative, more positive and more independent. <\/strong>This is true for all students, including those with special needs who require more individual attention during the process.<\/p>\n<p>In a dissertation study on the effects of the inquiry-based Modified Moore Method (MMM) on college students\u2019 concept of proof, Y.Y. Dhaler found that MMM had a positive effect on the student\u2019s conceptualization of mathematical proof, as well as on <strong>self-confidence in their abilities, their appreciation of the relevance of proof, and their ability to be independent thinkers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Einstein Project (2005) Cornerstone Study: Research Conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>K\u00fchne, B. 1995, The Barkestorp project: Investigating school library use. School Libraries Worldwide<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discuss Here: What is your experience with Inquiry Based Learning?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is an approach to education that places students&#8217; questions, ideas and observations at the center of the learning experience. Here\u2019s what research says about the effectiveness of this approach.<br \/>\nA research study was commissioned by the Einstein Project and conducted by the St. Norbert College Survey Center to evaluate the effectiveness [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1418,1417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14136,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions\/14136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}