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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1044476 |
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- Exercises for Bringing the Hypothetico-Deductive Method to Life Romesburg, H. Charles Logical Thinking Abstract Reasoning Inquiry Hypothesis Testing High School Students College Students Teaching Methods Class Activities Science Education Biological Sciences Test Construction Case Studies This article explains four kinds of inquiry exercises, different in purpose, for teaching advanced-level high school and college students the hypothetico-deductive (H-D) method. The first uses a picture of a river system to convey the H-D method's logic. The second has teams of students use the H-D method: their teacher poses a hypothesis drawn from a research article the students have not seen and asks them to design an H-D test of it. Later they read the article and compare their designs with its. The third exercise extends this; when economically practical, the class may experimentally test the best of its designs. Finally, an Internet/library exercise lets students inquire into the history of the H-D method.