Hello,
Please can someone advice about a survey to be used for students to assess their perception about learning through inquiry?
I want to measure the correlation between teachers employment of IBL and the development of students' critical thinking skills.
Regards,
Hala
This 49 pages PDF file is about inquiry- based learning & teaching.
https://mascil-project.ph-freiburg.de/images/pdf/mascilD102FinalVersion.pdf
It targeted the teachers by its questionnaire from page 33 onward but it can be utilized for your purposes. For example: Point 16 on page 43 can be changed so as the Table will have (My teacher... instead of My students...) & (a. ... allows us to do laboratory work instead of a. ...do practical activities).
To avoid plagiarism , the name of the reference has to be given plus major modifications in the wordings plus additions & subtractions here & there. By referring to this file, it is admitted that they contributed ideas but there is also your share of contribution as well.
Literature that may assist your inquiry could include Action Research and Action Learning:
Marquardt, M 2004, ‘Harnessing the power of Action Learning’, American Society for Training and Development, 58, 6, pp. 26-32, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 10 March 2012.
Revans, RW 1991, ‘Action learning and the third world’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2, 1, pp. 73-91, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 10 March 2012.
If you are going to measure the correlation between teachers employment of IBL and the development of students' critical thinking skills, methinks that your dependent variable is critical thinking and the independent variable is the teaching strategy. Therefore, you ought to be varying teaching strategy — be it inquiry based learning. In other words, what you ought to measure is critical thinking score for the experimental group of students, not the students' perception of IBL unless the study is broader. In these types of experiments students must be exposed for IBL for several weeks (about five minimum) to manifest a significant effect of IBL. The effect size will depend on what the control group of students are undergoing.
That said, ACER student perception of teaching questionnaire (https://www.acer.org/files/SPTQ-Info-Book.pdf) may be quite helpful. You may find CASE studies at King's College useful. Cognitive Acceleration is a method for the development of students' general thinking ability (or general intelligence) which has been developed at King's in a series of research and development programmes continuing from 1981 to the present. There are a lot of resources on these.
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