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Inquiry Experience Monitoring Tool

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The following tool is designed to help monitor teaching experiences which nurture the fundamental inquiry abilities in middle and high school students. 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.

Regularly = Once per week or moreSeldom = Once per semester

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

  2. Students design and conduct scientific investigations:
    Regularly_____________________________________________Seldom

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

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

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

  6. Students recognize and analyze alternatives explanations and predictions:
    Regularly_____________________________________________Seldom

  7. Students revise scientific explanations based on logic and evidence:
    Regularly_____________________________________________Seldom

  8. Students communicate and defend scientific explanations and procedures:
    Regularly_____________________________________________Seldom

  9. Students use mathematics in all areas of scientific investigation:
    Regularly_____________________________________________Seldom

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