Mini-Lab Activities: Inquiry-Based Lab Activities for Formative Assessment

摘要

The effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction and laboratories has been demonstrated by several recent studies (1-5), and these types of laboratories are beginning to be used to a greater extent, in large part due to organized approaches such as processoriented guided-inquiry learning (6). The need for inquiry-based learning activities was recognized by the National Research Council more than a decade ago (7) and recently by the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 (8). However, most likely because of institutional and instructional inertia, the majority of laboratory activities are still performed in the traditional style.