This paper outlines the development effort and a small pilot study conducted to assess students' understanding of state change in order to: - 1) characterize middle school students' inquiry skills, - 2) develop an effective set of tutoring prompts for inquiry within a technical environment, and - 3) determine the effectiveness of various prompts and scaffolding tasks at improving inquiry skills. -

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• DiTullio, Steven Michael

Subject

• Community
• Computing
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-102610-111114

Keyword

• Education, Elementary
• Human-computer interaction
• Educational surveys--Design
• Science--Study and teaching

Advisor

• Gobert, Janice

Year

• 2010

Date created

• 2010-10-26

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright