Scaffolding 8th graders’ socioscientific inquiry in technology-enhanced classrooms: Towards designing and implementing distributed scaffolding

• In Event: D&D - Implementation of Socioscientific Inquiry

Short Description

This study explores how hard scaffolding tools support soft scaffolding for implementing a socio-scientific inquiry (SSI) unit in a science classroom. This case study focused on how students used resources and tools during their SSI activities, as well as how students perceived the SSI unit and the scaffolding tools embedded in the SSI activities. This study has implications for how we understand the student experience of scaffolding in science inquiry-based environments, and provides recommendations related to effective hard and soft scaffolding in order to refine scaffolding design to better support student learning.

Authors

• Suhkyung Shin, Indiana University

• Thomas Brush, Indiana University

• Jiyoon Jung, Indiana University Bloomington

• Krista Glazewski, Indiana University