Developing Students' Ability to Ask More and Better Questions Resulting from Inquiry-Type Technology Laboratories

10.29495/CITE.200612.0005

楊宏仁；鍾一先；翁凌志；黃國彥

Technology Education ； Inquiry ； Technology Laboratory

科技教育課程改革與發展學術研討會論文集

2005期（2006 / 12 / 01）

5 - 8

英文

This study focuses on the ability of technology students, who learn graphic communication through the inquiry approach, to ask meaningful and technologically sound questions. We investigated both (a) the ability of students to ask questions related to their observations and finding in an inquiry-type experiment and (b) the ability of students to ask questions after critically reading a technology article. The student population consisted of two groups: an inquiry-laboratory group and a traditional laboratory-type group as control group. The three common features investigated were (a) the number of questions that were asked by each of the students, (b) the cognitive level of the questions, and (c) the nature of the questions that were chosen by the participants, for the purpose of further investigation. It was found that students in the inquiry group who had experience in asking questions in the technology laboratory outperformed the control grouping in their ability to ask more and better questions.