We present" Science Assistments," an interactive environment, which assesses students'
inquiry skills as they engage in inquiry using science microworlds. We frame our variables …

This research addresses high school students' understandings of the nature of models, and
their interaction with model‐based software in three science domains, namely, biology …

We present work toward automatically assessing and estimating science inquiry skills as
middle school students engage in inquiry within a physical science microworld. Towards …

The Modeling Across the Curriculum Project (MAC; IERI# 0115699, Oct 2001-2006) used
real-time assessments to facilitate student learning and model-based inquiry among high …

This chapter addresses an issue central to the design of educational technology: the extent
to which one should explicitly guide the student as opposed to simply creating an open …

In this paper we explored whether engaging in two inquiry skills associated with data
collection, designing controlled experiments and testing stated hypotheses, within …

Recently there has been expressed need for authentic inquiry assessments that can
differentiate students' content knowledge from their inquiry skills. Additionally there has been …

The National frameworks for science emphasize inquiry skills (NRC, 1996), however, in
typical classroom practice, science learning often focuses on rote learning in part because …

The study developed and applied an index for measuring the level of complexity of full
authentic scientific inquiry. Complexity is a fundamental attribute of real life scientific …

The authors present work towards automatically assessing data collection behaviors as
middle school students engage in inquiry within a physics microworld. In this study, the …