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Enhancing Student Engagement through Student-Directed Investigation Strategies

Student-directed investigation is a potent pedagogical approach that promotes active learning and student engagement by involving students in real-world challenges. This method empowers students to become "experts" through various avenues such as Project-Based Learning, Experimental Learning, Service Learning, and Problem-Based Learning. The process can involve discovery, where students solve closed questions, or inquiry, where they explore open-ended issues. Effective implementation requires careful planning to overcome challenges like time constraints and varying student engagement levels.

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Enhancing Student Engagement through Student-Directed Investigation Strategies

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  1. Student-Directed Investigation Lindita Ivezaj, Melanie Borson, Brian Ault and Cameron Alvarez

  2. Defining Student Directed- Investigation • “No teaching approach has greater potential for student involvement and engagement than student- directed investigation (Larson & Keiper, 236) • Uses real world challenges • Requires active learning/ student involvement • Gives students opportunity to become “experts”

  3. Defining Student Directed- Investigation Cont… • Types of Student Directed- Investigation: • Project Based Learning • Experimental Learning • Service Learning • Problem Based Learning

  4. Problem Based Learning • Closely aligned with controversial issues. • Used to examine issues from multiple perspectives • Topics can either be: • Open • Closed • Tipping

  5. Subcategories of Problem Based Learning • Discovery vs. Inquiry • Teachers will use discovery when they want students to discover a correct answer. • Or teachers will use inquiry to have students create their own conclusion about questions or problems.

  6. Discovery • Discovery is used to examine topics which are ‘closed’ meaning they are no longer controversial. • For example, women's suffrage. • Teacher presents students with an issue or question, student then problem solve through informational resources.

  7. Discovery Cont… • Teacher presents students with the issue • Students collect data • Students then analyze data • Students generate a solution • Students present or publish their findings • Teacher assess students learning and evaluate the process

  8. Inquiry • Inquiry learning is used to examine ‘open topics’, meaning topics which are not settled by contemporary society. • Students are presented with complex problem which can have several solutions • For example, healthcare • 3 teacher approaches: • Structured, guided and open

  9. Inquiry Cont… • 5 Stages • Asking • Investigating • Interpreting • Reporting • Metacognitive Moments- In any stage, students might reflect, adjust or assess issues which come up during the process of inquiry.

  10. Logistics/ Making it work • Time constraint is the biggest obstacle • Student lack of engagement, failure to consider competing perspectives and lack of content knowledge. • Requires masterful behind the scenes planning.

  11. THE END • =)

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