9 Oct 2006
Mr Lau and I met up with an educational consultant to discuss areas of training and consultation. He shared with us some areas for inquiry-based practice such as higher order thinking, curriculum design and teachers and students' perceptions. Action research design and methodology was discussed. He brought up an interesting instrument for assessing students' conceptual understanding: a 2-tier mcq test.
I found some interesting papers (with some local authors) using this test to investigate:
1. creative thinking (primary level)
http://www.aare.edu.au/05pap/boo05235.pdf
2. physics: plane mirror image (high school)
http://www1.phys.uu.nl/esera2003/programme/pdf/011S.pdf
3. chemistry: ionisation energy (A level)
http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/eclipse/Tanetal(2005)IonisationEnergy.pdf