Indicators and Instruments in the Context of Inquiry-Based Science Education

Jana HeinzKatrin LipowskiAlexander GröschnerTina Seidel

Indicators and Instruments in the Context of Inquiry-Based Science Education

2011,  E-Book (PDF),  61,20 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-7594-6

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This report documents indicators and instruments in the context of inquiry-based science education (IBSE). It is embedded in an EU-project that aims at disseminating inquiry-based science teaching on a large scale in Europe.
A closer look at recent research about IBSE shows that it is rather specific to individual research questions as well as to single aspects of IBSE. Furthermore the instruments and indicators underlying the different studies are predominately not systematically covered. In this report single indicators and instruments in the context of science education are brought together. Thereby it becomes possible to build a coherent database and to link different research results.
The indicators and instruments in this report originate from a systematic literature review about IBSE from 2005-2009. To receive a comprehensive picture about research on IBSE, we extended the scope of this review beyond a focus on instruction (1). We additionally considered research about IBSE in the implementation areas of politics/stakeholders (2) as well as teacher education and teacher professional development (tpd) (3).
This report contributes to supplying a systematic overview about instruments and indicators in the field of IBSE. It addresses researchers, politicians and stakeholder, teacher educators and teachers who are interested in methods of research and dissemination in the context of science education, especially in IBSE.