Whole-Class Inquiry Assessments

by: Joan A. Gallagher-Bolos and Dennis W. Smithenry

Whole-class inquiry (WCI) assessments range from challenging, paper-and-pencil puzzles to lab-based problems that require students to apply their own gathered data to a new scenario; the latter might also require students to perform a lab with new parameters, or to answer a question using data from a previous lab. In this article, the authors present two example WCI assessments to describe how they implement these tests and use them to build a strong sense of community in their classrooms.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2008Stock # tst08_075_06_39Volume 075Issue 06

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