Assessing of Scientific Inquiry Skills Achieved by Future Biology Teachers

AbstractA successful application of scientific research in science education requires adequate professional training of teachers. The study presents the results of research focused on the level of scientific inquiry skills of future biology teachers. The results showed that students with a success rate of over 80 % solved tasks focused on applying numerical methods, determining relationships between variables and evaluating the uses and misuses of scientific information with a more than 80 % success rate. On the other side, the students had considerable problems associated with planning and implementing of the experiment. The results indicated that there is no significant difference in the level of scientific inquiry skills between students who study biology teaching in combination with other science subject, and students who study biology teaching in combination with a non-science subject.

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Virtual labs and their impact on developing scientific inquiry skills in the science subject for fifth-grade female students in Jeddah: المعامل الافتراضية وأثرها على تنمية مهارات الاستقصاء العلمي في مادة العلوم لدى طالبات الصف الخامس الابتدائي بجدة

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم التربوية والنفسية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.h280720 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Fatima Ebrahim Gahm

Keyword(s):

Scientific Inquiry ◽

Performance Test ◽

Female Students ◽

Fifth Grade ◽

Virtual Labs ◽

Inquiry Skills ◽

Virtual Laboratories ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Scientific Inquiry Skills ◽

The Impact

The aim of the current research is to reveal the impact of virtual labs on developing scientific investigation skills of fifth-grade primary students in Jeddah, and in order to achieve that, the researcher used the quasi-experiment approach with one group, where the research tools were applied after ensuring their validity and stability, namely the performance test and the attached observation card, before After applying the experimental treatment material represented in the virtual Crocodile laboratory in a sample of (35) female students of the fifth grade of primary school - the second semester of the academic year 1437-1438 AH, and they were chosen by the intentional method, and after conducting the experiment the research results were analyzed, and the research concluded A total of a set of results, the most prominent of which is the existence of a statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the mean scores of the experimental group students that use (virtual laboratories), in the pre and post application of the performance test and its observation card for scientific inquiry skills in favor of the post application. The researcher recommended employing virtual laboratories in teaching science subjects and its branches and suggested a set of future researches in light of the results of the research.

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The Effect of Common Knowledge Construction Model-based Teaching on the Cognitive and Psychomotor Learning of 7th Grade Students

Journal of Science Learning ◽

10.17509/jsl.v4i1.25607 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 31-40

Author(s):

Barış Özden ◽

Nilgün Yenice

Keyword(s):

Scientific Inquiry ◽

Knowledge Construction ◽

Common Knowledge ◽

Control Group ◽

Inquiry Skills ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Psychomotor Learning ◽

Post Test ◽

Scientific Inquiry Skills ◽

Construction Model

This study aimed to investigate the effect of science teaching, based on the Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM), on cognitive and psychomotor learning in 7th-grade students. The study group consisted of 29 students from two public schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education in the 2018-2019 academic year. The study was carried out following a semi-experimental pre-test post-test control group research design. The data were collected with a “Scientific Inquiry Skills Test,” and a “Psychomotor Skills Rubric” (PSR) developed by the researchers. The PSR was used to evaluate the practice exam results of both groups. Data were analyzed with a standard statistics package. It was determined that the scientific inquiry skills post-test scores of the experimental group (X=15.87) were higher than the control group (X=10.92). The difference was observed to be significant. Also, a comparison of the total post-test PSR scores showed a statistically significant difference between the experimental (X=15.44) and control groups (X=13.30).

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