Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Scientific Inquiry
 



Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1991, Volume 12

Abstract

In this exercise, students examine several components of reasoning with the purpose of helping the student see how these are used in developing a personal problem solving technique. The students work through three exercises: determining an object in a sealed box, identifying a series of unknown household chemicals, and identifying the rules that determine responses in a computer simulation.

Keywords:  scientific method, computer simulation, deduction, induction

Southwest Missouri State University (1990)