User:Marsha9/Inquiry in Motion

The mission of Inquiry in Motion is to improve the motivation, potential, and achievement of students and teachers through sustained engagement in science, math, engineering, and technology. The home page and resources can be found at http://www.clemson.edu.

A dynamic lesson planning tool for K-12 math and science teachers can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/lessonplans/. The tool is available free of charge to all registered users. Teachers can use Public Lessons as is, modify an existing lesson by moving it into My WorkSpace, or create New Lessons for public or personal viewing. All lessons integrate key concepts into an inquiry-based learning environment and are based on the 4E x 2 Instructional Model.

Teacher success implementing inquiry-based instruction has been measured using EQUIP (Electronic Quality of Inquiry Protocol).

In 2008-2009, the data from the MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) test show a clear difference among the growth seen on Virtual Control Group (students from other districts with similar demographic composition), the Control Group (non-participating teachers from Greenville County), and the Study Group (participants in the Inquiry in Motion program). Specifically, the data show that the students of participating teachers significantly outperformed the students of non-participating teachers from their same school. Both groups also exceeded the performance of students from the virtual control group. These trends were seen for student performance in both science content and science process. The implication is that as the quantity and quality of inquiry-based instruction improves so to does student achievement.