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Evaluation of an attempt to teach scientific inquiry and criticism in a working class high school
Author(s) -
Case Robbie,
Fry Cathy
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660100205
Subject(s) - criticism , mathematics education , class (philosophy) , psychology , science education , teaching method , educational research , pedagogy , epistemology , art , literature , philosophy
A group of 15 low SES 14‐year‐olds, who had not yet reached Piaget's stage of “formal operations”, were taught to design controlled experiments and to criticize poorly controlled experiments. As judged by performance on a nonstandardized text, they learned to do this well, and significantly outperformed matched controls. ( p <.001). The results were interpreted with reference to Inhelder and Piaget's work on the origins of scientific thinking.