What Needs to Develop in the Development of Inquiry Skills?

@article{Kuhn2008WhatNT,
  title={What Needs to Develop in the Development of Inquiry Skills?},
  author={Deanna Kuhn and Maria Pease},
  journal={Cognition and Instruction},
  year={2008},
  volume={26},
  pages={512 - 559}
}
  • D. Kuhn, Maria Pease
  • Published 26 September 2008
  • Education, Sociology
  • Cognition and Instruction
To identify the challenges that students must meet to engage in effective self-directed inquiry, a class was followed for three years, from the fourth through the sixth grades, as they engaged in a sequence of progressively more demanding inquiry activities. Students made substantial progress in understanding the objectives of inquiry, identifying questions, attending to evidence, identifying patterns, making controlled comparisons, interpreting increasingly complex data, supporting claims, and… 
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