INQUIRY BASED LEARNING

INQUIRY BASED LEARNING

INQUIRY BASED LEARNING is a learning process through questions generated from the interests, curiosities, and perspectives/experiences of the learner.

 FIVE GENERAL COMPONENTS.

1.         question
2.         student engagement.

3.         cooperative interaction.

4.         performance evaluation.

5.         variety of resources

FOUR LEVELS.

1.         Confirmation Inquiry.

2.         Structured Inquiry.

3.         Guide Inquiry.

4.         Open Inquiry

STEPS :

1.         Questioning
2.         Collecting Information.

3.         Planning and Predicting.

4.         Investigating
5.         Collecting and Analyzing the data.

6.         Recording and Reporting.

7.         Conclusion

EXAMPLE

According survey Political and Economic Risk Consultant (PERC), quality education in Indonesia is in the 12 position in from 12 countries in ASEAN.

1.      Why the quality of education in Indonesia is in position in 12 in from 12 countries in ASEAN?

2.      Whether the cost of education is very expensive to be one cause of the low quality of education in indonesia?

3.      What is the result poor education in Indonesia?

4.       What can we do to improve the quality of education in       Indonesia?

ADVANTAGE
1. Students can find out the answer from their own research results so that  more meaningful.

2. This method is consistent with       modern psychological study that assumes that learning is a process.

3. Teaches problem-solving and critical thinking.

DISADVANTAGE

1.      Teacher difficult to control the activities and student success.

2.      This method requires a long time to research.