Effective closure is crucial. Inquiry management skills are used to guide student discovery to meet learner outcomes. Back to Top 2. Asking the right guiding questions is an essential skill for effective inquiry learning. Timing and levels of questions can direct students toward key concepts while fostering higher-order thinking skills.
Students learn to develop researchable questions through interaction with their teacher.
Questioning behaviors can be analyzed and methods practiced to improve the essential inquiry art of questioning. Back to Top 3. These naive beliefs or misconceptions are more easily identified and challenged through the inquiry process. Back to Top 4. Minnesota Performance Packages are examples of how to verify student understanding of key science concepts and the inquiry process.