This study examines how a Humanities team engaged in professional conversation to refine and implement a literacy and inquiry tool in an Asian Studies curriculum.
Aligning with the pragmatic character of design-based research (Wang and Hannafin 2005), we initiated the research by asking UTC staff to identify and suggest areas where the design of a citizen inquiry tool would complement their teaching and make a contribution to science learning and understanding, in particular students' participation in inquiry learning.
Drawing on socio-cultural perspectives of teacher learning and theories of tools as mediators of action, this case study investigates the ways this community of practice discussed their understandings of contexts, curriculum, and classroom practice to implement the literacy and inquiry tool.
They were objects of inquiry, tools in a policy argument.
Towards this end, citizen inquiry tools can scaffold the development of critical thinking skills through engagement with the various stages of the scientific inquiry and communication with others, including experts and the broader community.
Removing that inquiry, the tool showed, would increase my score by 21 points, to 805.
The advancement of technology also has the affordance of documenting users' behavior in using the designated means (e.g., animation, inquiry learning tools, simulation) when progressing along with the online assessment (Ryoo and Linn 2012; Ryoo and Bedell 2017).
To support activities in the reasoning phase of scientific inquiry, both tools are effective in generating continued reasoning about the mechanism of fragment distribution and the genetic variability this distribution means for a population.
Disciplines constitute a broader unity of analysis of connection in the sciences that is characterized, for instance, by their domain of inquiry, cognitive tools and social structure (Bechtel 1987).
Across studies, prevalence of intimate partner abuse during pregnancy has ranged anywhere from 0.9%to20.1%1% [ 21], with variability attributable to differences in study designs, such as inclusion criteria, sample characteristics, response rates, modes of inquiry, assessment tools, and operational definitions of intimate partner abuse [ 22, 23].
We hope that this laboratory exercise will inspire further such approaches and that the arsenal of process-oriented inquiry-based tools for teaching evolutionary theory will continue to grow.
