Findings in this action research project provide salient implications for other Asian countries which need to improve in-service teacher professional development programs in order to successfully enactment inquiry-based instruction.
Currently, there is little study in Singapore about first-year science teachers' conceptions and enactment of inquiry.
Therefore, it is important to investigate beginning science teachers' conceptions and enactment of inquiry through teachers' lived experiences (Kim, Tan, & Talaue, 2013; Tan, Talaue, & Kim, 2014).
Also she felt that it would be helpful to have Senior Teachers demonstrate the enactment of inquiry-based curriculum to beginning teachers.
This research project focuses on two first-year science teachers' current state of understanding of scientific inquiry and enactment.
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However, if teachers have different conceptions of scientific inquiry, then the enactment will be different and students will learn inquiry in different ways according to their teachers' understanding of scientific inquiry.
If teachers have different conceptions of scientific inquiry, then their curriculum enactment will be different from the intended curriculum.
At the same time, there is a scarcity of research which addresses how the beginning teachers form conceptions of inquiry and how their conceptions of inquiry affect enactment of inquiry (Ozel & Luft, 2013).
Terry Elkins, whose inquiries and accusations concerning the 1985 mayoral race in Dallas led to the enactment of reform legislation in Texas, maintains that election officials should be made more accountable at law for their performances.
Data analysis of the interviews involved a process of a priori coding based on the essential features of inquiry as well as grounded theory to expose the challenges the teachers faced in their enactment of inquiry-based instruction.
