The main purpose of this study was to explore the influence of using "scientific inquiry ability scoring rubric" to be the learning scaffold and self-assessment stratagem in experiment curriculum on students' scientific inquiry ability. A quasi-experimental study was implemented in a university for one semester. Of the two classes participated in this study, one received the designed teaching stratagem and the other the traditional experiment curriculum. Students' reports were scored and sufficient data of quality were collected after each experiment to test the differences of the two classess, further analysed the self-assessment data and learning-questionnaire to assess students¡¦ perceptions. In addition, the influence of students' motive on learning was also investigated.
The results obtained from this study are summarized as follows:
1. Among six abilities studied those belonging to "Nature of scientific inquiry" and "Communication"¡]¡¨forming a question¡¨, ¡¨the completeness of procedures¡¨, ¡¨the sufficiency of data¡¨, ¡§the organization of data¡¨, ¡§transferring data¡¨, ¡§reviewing and evaluating¡¨¡^had a greater progress under this stratagem.
2. Students changed step by step on four inquiry-ability dimensions (i.e., bring up self inquiry questions, try to transfer data to improve science communication etc.) during this investigation period.
3. The correlation between assessments of teachers' and those of students' increased gradually, but there was no significant difference in performance between hit and miss self-assessors.
4. Students had positive attitudes toward the self-assessment questionnaire. About 80¢Mstudents accepted that using the rubrics was beneficial for learning."Attitude" and "Science Learning Value" are the two items of students' motive that showed significant relation with their learning effects.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0531104-161719 |
| Date | 31 May 2004 |
| Creators | Kuo, Hsing-i |
| Contributors | none, none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0531104-161719 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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