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Comparative Research in the Inquiry Activity of the PEP Version and Beijing Normal University Press Biology Textbooks in Middle School

Author: HaoJianShi
Tutor: LuoKeMing；YiMaoXiang
School: Southwestern University
Course: Subject Teaching
Keywords: High school biology Compulsory textbooks Exploration activities Comparative Study
CLC: G633.91
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Curriculum reform is a major research topic of education reform. Construction of teaching materials is an important part of the curriculum reform, the main source for the students to gain knowledge, is composed of teaching resources. The eighth meeting of the new curriculum reform advocate inquiry-based learning, scientific inquiry activities textbooks set is one of the highlights of the reform, to carry out exploration activities in the textbook, allowing students to master scientific inquiry skills while building knowledge develop inquiry learning habits, exercise the creative thinking ability. Scientific inquiry activities is the focus of the current natural science disciplines direction of education reform, education research, hot, after years of study, has achieved some results. However, there are still defects in the design and implementation of the exploration activities. Accurately grasp the essence of the scientific activities, is a subject worthy of study to optimize the design of scientific activities, not only in-depth development plays a key role in the promotion of quality education to our new basic education curriculum reform will also have far-reaching impact. This paper-based inquiry learning basic theory, from the type and level of inquiry skills, explore thinking aspects \The survey examines the implementation of the exploration activities in the classrooms, teaching materials in the design and conduct of exploration activities and teachers talk, some of the problems encountered in the implementation process in order to understand the exploration activities, to address these issues, I made some comments and recommendations, including an emphasis on the effectiveness of the inquiry activities designed to focus on the level of thinking to explore, and focus on the classroom to explore the creation of the atmosphere as well as the teachers' operational capacity enhancement. Available to teachers to reference textbook organize teaching, and hope that future amendments to the textbook to textbook writers helpful. The text consists of five parts. The first part is the preface. This section includes issues raised, four of the field of dynamic research purposes and ideas and research methods, described in their research of the new curriculum reform in China, the establishment of the basis of this research topic, research significance and methods. The second part is an overview of the theory of scientific inquiry activities. This part explore the generation of ideas, summarized the meaning of scientific inquiry, and the related definition in the type and level of scientific inquiry activities, explore the skills and explore thinking, established design principles of inquiry activities. The third part is a specific design exploration activities in the textbook. First, a comparative study on the type and level of exploration activities in the two sets of textbooks. Skills and different levels of exploration activities in the textbook contains general comparison. Finally, the level of thinking of the exploration activities carried out comparative analysis explored the relationship between thinking and openness level inquiry activities, explore the relationship of thinking and inquiry skills. The fourth part of the study of teaching practice. This part of the author, after a period of two and a half time classroom observation and teacher interviews, high school biology textbooks, scientific inquiry to learn some of the problems encountered in the course of their activities by the implementation of activities as well as teachers in the experimental area. The fifth part of the study conclusions and inadequacies. A summary of the study, and made several suggestions for the implementation of the inquiry activities reflect the inadequacies of this study. The results of this study are: more exploration activities, arranged in two sets of new textbooks the PEP setting 128, Beijing Normal University set 171 exploration activities in the form of diverse and different. PEP textbooks focus on AC class exploration activities, Beijing Normal University emphasis on experimental inquiry activities. Two sets of textbooks emphasis on the knowledge learning exploration activities. Inquiry skills, the skills of the two sets of textbooks open a low activity involving mainly the basic skills the open activities including skills elements widely, higher skill requirements. Explore thinking culture set the proportion of progressive issues, two sets of textbooks is not high. To evaluate the activities of the two sets of textbooks settings, concluded that: (a) the activities of the two sets of versions of textbooks in different types and material selection. (B) two sets of version textbooks activity the total time required is too long, the cost is too high, the resource conditions is relatively high. (C) The two versions of textbooks are not comprehensive enough training activities to explore the capacity and explore thinking.

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