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The
I-Search in Action
Resources
| Inquiry-Based Performance Standards
Resources
Inquiry-Based
Performance Standards
| Inquiry-Based
Performance Standards |
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| Discipline
and Source |
Performance:
Focus on Inquiry |
| English
Language Arts
National
Council of Teachers of English and International Reading Association,
1996
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"Students
conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas
and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate,
and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and
non-print text, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries
in ways that suit their purpose and audience."
"Students
use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g.,
libraries, databases, computer networks, videos) to gather
and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge."
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| Science
National
Research Council, 1996
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"The
inquiry process in science involves students in:
- identifying
questions that can be answered through scientific investigations
- designing
and conducting a scientific investigation
- using
appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and
interpret data
- developing
descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using
evidence
- thinking
critically and logically to make the relationships between
evidence and explanations"
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Social
Studies
National
Council for the Social Studies, 1994
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In
social studies, it "is important that students become able
to connect knowledge, skills, and values to civic action as
they engage in social inquiry." Some key skills are acquiring
information, manipulating data, and developing and presenting
policies, arguments, and stories. |
| Mathematics
The
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989
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"Mathematical
power includes the ability to explore, conjecture, and reason
logically; to solve non-routine problems; to communicate about
and through mathematics; and to connect ideas within mathematics
and between mathematics and other intellectual activity. Mathematical
power also involves...a disposition to seek, evaluate, and use
quantitative and spatial information in solving problems and
making decisions." |
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