Judith S. Lederman|Norman G. Lederman|Selina L. Bartels|José Paz Jiménez|Mark Akubo|Shereen Aly|Chengcheng Bao|Estelle Blanquet|Ron Blonder|Mariana Bologna Soares de Andrade|Cathy Buntting|Mustafa Çak?r|Heba EL-Deghaidy|Ahmed ElZorkani|Estelle Gaigher|Shuchen Guo|Arvi Tapani Hakanen|Soraya Hamed Al-Lal|Çi?dem Han-Tosuno?lu|Annemarie Hattingh|Anne Hume|Serhat ?rez|Gillian Kay|Özgür K?v?lcan Do?an|Kerstin Kremer|Po?Chih Kuo|Jari Lavonen|Shu Fen Lin|Cheng Liu|Enshan Liu|Shiang Yao Liu|Bin Bin Lv|Rachel Mamlok?Naaman|Christine V. McDonald|Irene Neumann|Pan Yong|Éric Picholle|Ana Rivero García|Carl Johan Rundgren|David Santibáñez-Gómez|Kathy Saunders|Renée Schwartz|Frauke Voitle|Jakob Gyllenpalm|Fangbing Wei|Jocelyn Wishart|Zhifeng Wu|Xiao Huang|Yalç?n Yalaki|Qiaoxue Zhou
An international collaborative investigation of beginning seventh grade students' understandings of scientific inquiry: Establishing a baseline
Illinois Institute of Technology|Illinois Institute of Technology|Valparaiso University|Illinois Institute of Technology|Florida State University|American University in Cairo|Zhejiang Normal University|Weizmann Institute of Science|Universidade Estadual de Londrina|University of Waikato|Marmara University|American University in Cairo|American University in Cairo|University of Pretoria|Beijing Normal University|Helsinki Art Museum|University of Helsinki|Universidad de Sevilla|Marmara University|University of Cape Town|University of Waikato|Marmara University|University of Cape Town|Marmara University|National Pingtung University|Helsinki Art Museum|University of Helsinki|National Changhua University of Education|Beijing Normal University|Beijing Normal University|National Taiwan Normal University|Zhejiang Normal University|Weizmann Institute of Science|Griffith University|Zhejiang International Studies University|Université Côte d'Azur|Universidad de Sevilla|Stockholm University|Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez|University of Waikato|Georgia State University|Stockholm University|Zhejiang Normal University|University of Bristol|Zhejiang Normal University|Zhejiang Normal University|Hacettepe University
although understandings scientific inquiry opposed conducting inquiry included science education reform documents around world little known students learned inquiry elementary school years partially due lack assessment instrument measure understandings scientific inquiry however valid reliable assessment recently developed published views scientific inquiry vasi lederman et al 2014 journal research science teaching 51 6583 purpose largescale international project collect first baseline data beginning middle school students learned scientific inquiry elementary school years eighteen countriesregions spanning six continents including 2634 students participated study participating countriesregions australia brazil chile egypt england finland france germany israel mainland china new zealand nigeria south africa spain sweden taiwan turkey united states many countries science formally taught middle school rationale choosing seventh grade students investigation baseline data simultaneously provide information anything students learn inquiry elementary school well beginning knowledge enter secondary school important note collecting data approximately 200 countries globally humanly possible also possible collect data every region country results overwhelmingly show students around world beginning grade seven little understandings scientific inquiry countries show reasonable understandings certain aspects overall picture understandings scientific inquiry hoped completing 6 years elementary education country