Inquiry Experience Monitoring Tool

Name/ID____________________________________________

The following tool is designed to help monitor teaching experiences which nurture the fundamental inquiry abilities. Mark an X at the appropriate point along the contiuum below each statement. These fundamental abilities are described in more detail in The National Science Education Standards, Chapter 6: Science Content Standards.

Achieved = you have had such experiences at the Institute, based on appropriate encouragement, support, and guidance

Not Achieved = you have not had such experiences here, nor did you find the necessary encouragement, support, or guidance to do so

1. Participants identify questions that that can be pursued through scientific investigation:
   

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2. Participants design and conduct scientific investigations:
   

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3. Participants use appropriate tools, techniques, and technologies to analyze data:
   

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4. Participants develop descriptions, explanations, predictions and models using evidence:
   

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5. Participants think critically and logically to make relationships between evidence and explanations:
   

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6. Participants recognize and analyze alternatives explanations and predictions:
   

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7. Participants revise scientific explanations based on logic and evidence:
   

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8. Participants communicate and defend scientific explanations and procedures:
   

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9. Participants use mathematics in all areas of scientific investigation:
   

   Achieved

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   Not Achieved

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