Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Danielle Marie Dowling, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Morgan M Hynes, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

), and improve students’ attitude towardscience and engineering in general (Haury, 1993). And because inquiry instruction calls uponteachers to adopt the view that “the class is the arena for…exploration of students’ participation,knowledge, and reason” (Hammer, 2005; p. 503), it fosters an educational environment in whichstudent reasoning can be laid bare through debate, discussion, and collective exploration.Creating such a learning community within the classroom is important, because as Beatty et al(2006) have observed, “Telling students what to think is notoriously ineffective; eliciting theirthinking, confronting it with alternatives, and seeking resolution works better.”The focus of this paper will lean more toward the inquiry instruction