The Effect Of The Inquiry-Based Learning Approach On Student’s Critical Thinking Skills

By Meltem Duran, Ilbilge Dökme. 2016

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Background:The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of an activity set developed according to the inquiry-based learning approach in the unit “Particulate Structure of Matter” on students’ critical thinking skills in science and technology courses. The study was conducted with 90 sixth grade students attending four sixth grade classes of a secondary school.Material and methods:Within the framework of the study, in order to evaluate the effects of inquiry-based learning approach on the students’ critical thinking skills in science and technology courses, the guided activity set was developed by the researchers in line with the inquiry-based learning approach. In this study, pre-test and posttest control group experimental designs were used.Results:The findings of the study revealed that science and technology learning supported with the guided activities developed in line with the inquiry-based learning approach have significant effects on students’ critical thinking skills in science and technology courses.Conclusions:The critical thinking level of the experimental group students taught with the inquiry-based learning approach was found to be higher than that of the control group students taught with the traditional lecturing method.the critical thinking level of the experimental group students showed a positive increase in all the dimensions.

Subfields: Education

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• Inquiry-Based Learning: Student Teachers’ Challenges and Perceptions (2019, background): “115 | P a g e IBL can be implemented at different levels (Duran & Dökme, 2016).”
• How Are The Physics Critical Thinking Skills of The Students Taught by Using Inquiry-Discovery Through Empirical and Theorethical Overview? (2017, neutral): “In relation to it, the learning model which is able to increase the students’ critical thinking skills is inquiry-discovery (Hwang & Chang, 2011; Duran & Dokme, 2016), in which the students are actively involved in obtaining and discovering concepts or principles to empower their knowledge…”
• Promoting Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills of Preservice Elementary Teachers through Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL) (2018, background): “…the acquisition of critical thinking and problem solving skills can be improved through the implementation of collaborative inquiry-based learning (Duran & Dökme, 2016; Espinosa, Monterola, & Punzalan, 2013; Kowalczyk & Leggett, 2005; Miri, David, & Uri, 2007; Styron, 2014; Wartono, Hudha, &…”
• Path Analysis of Self-Regulation, Social Skills, Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Ability on Social Studies Learning Outcomes (2021, neutral): “Anggelo supports this opinion, that critical thinking is applying rational, high thinking activities, which include analyzing, synthesizing, recognizing and solving problems, concluding, and evaluating (Astuti et al., 2020; Pursitasari et al., 2020; Duran & Dökme, 2016).”