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Inquiry -BASED LEARNING LITERATURE REVIEW Inquiry -Based Learning: A Review of the Research Literature Dr. Sharon Friesen Galileo Educational Network , University of Calgary David Scott University of Calgary Paper prepared for the Alberta Ministry of Education June 2013 Inquiry -BASED LEARNING LITERATURE REVIEW 2 Introduction A growing body of research suggests that models of education designed to meet the needs of the industrial past are inadequate for the myriad challenges and opportunities facing 21st century students (Alberta Education, 2010; Barron & Darling-Hammond, 2008; Friesen & Jardine, 2009; Perkins, 2009). New Educational environments require different ways of designing learning experiences for students as well as new approaches to teaching and assessment. The call for Educational reform away from passive transmission-based learning and the imparting of discrete skills and processes is not new. Institutions of education around the world are reconsidering some of their most deeply-held assumptions about how they conceptualize learning and to what end education should be directed.

Contemporary educational researchers promote a myriad of conceptual models ... Selection Criteria We examined a range of sources, including research articles and reports, ... co-readings of this document to provide ongoing critical feedback and commentary.

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