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Tip: Inquiry-based Learning > What is it?
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Inquiry is a pedagogical practice that is grounded in constructivism and is facilitated by posing authentic questions, problems, or scenarios. This approach engages learners in developing questions, making observations, researching to learn what information is already available, developing processes for experiments, planning for data collection, analyzing and interpreting, summarizing explanations, and creating predictions for future study.
Inquiry-based learning consists of learners doing the following in an iterative–and often non-linear–process:
- Question - Ask: “What might you want to know?”
- Research - Ask: “How/where might you find the information to gain that knowledge?”
- Investigate - Ask: “What might you create or implement to build our understanding and answer your question?”
- Analyze - Ask: “What data did you gather, and what does that data tell you about the answer to your question?”
- Conclude - Ask: “What conclusion could you draw from the data you collected?”
- Reflect - Ask: “What have you learned about your question or the learning process?”
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