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Development and Application of an Instrument for Assessing Inquiry Level in Secondary School Science Laboratory Classrooms  

Lee, Keun-June (Jeonui middle school)
Jeong, Jin-Woo (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.25, no.7, 2004 , pp. 507-518 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument for analysing secondary school science laboratory classroom. Three classroom of novice teachers were observed and administered Dana's (2001) situated laboratory activity instrument. Dana's situated laboratory activity instrument consists of eight categories. Each category includes four levels. Three doctoral students and two science education specialists participated in modification of the through 15 science education graduate students. To achieve reliability, the researcher and two raters observed and analyzed three videotaped classrooms through discussion. The finalized instrument was employed in four novice teacher' classes and result indicated the instrument to be useful in identifying the inquiry level of a secondary laboratory classroom. The inquiry level of four novice teachers was confirmation or observation.
Keywords
inquiry level; novice teacher; classroom observation;
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