Generating Students’ Information
Seeking Questions in the Scholar
Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect
From Inquiry Teaching
Approaches?

Tarcilo Torres; Beatriz Milicic; Carlos Soto; Vicente Sanjosé

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a

Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?

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Tarcilo Torres ¹, Beatriz Milicic ², Carlos Soto ¹, Vicente Sanjosé ³ ^*

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¹ University of Antioquia, COLOMBIA² National University of Rosario, ARGENTINA³ University of Valencia, SPAIN^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Physics teachers use experimental devices to show students how scientific concepts, principles, and laws are applied to understand the real world. This paper studies question generation of secondary and under-graduate university students when they are confronted with experimental devices in different but usual teaching situations: reading about devices while studying still images or diagrams, watching an experimental demonstration, and handling the devices in the laboratory. The influence of the prior scientific knowledge on the questions asked is also analysed. Inquiry learning environments, involving lab projects, seemed to stimulate more inferences addressed to causality when students tried to build mental models, whereas reading about devices with the help of still images stimulate more descriptive inferences and inhibited predictive ones.

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basic physics
problem solving
experimental devices
question generation

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 9, Issue 3, 2013, 259-272

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Torres, T., Milicic, B., Soto, C., & Sanjosé, V. (2013). Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(3), 259-272. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a

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Torres T, Milicic B, Soto C, Sanjosé V. Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(3):259-72. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a

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Torres T, Milicic B, Soto C, Sanjosé V. Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(3), 259-272. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a

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Torres, Tarcilo, Beatriz Milicic, Carlos Soto, and Vicente Sanjosé. "Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2013 9 no. 3 (2013): 259-272. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a

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Torres, T., Milicic, B., Soto, C., and Sanjosé, V. (2013). Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(3), pp. 259-272. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a

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Torres, Tarcilo et al. "Generating Students’ Information Seeking Questions in the Scholar Lab: What Benefits Can We Expect From Inquiry Teaching Approaches?". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 3, 2013, pp. 259-272. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.934a