Expected Student Outcomes in Earth Science Investigations

Authors

John F. Thompson

Document Type

Article

Abstract

One of the basic precepts in science teaching is the Futility Factor: no laboratory investigation is ever a complete failure . . . it can always serve as a bad example. There will always be some kind of result when students do investigations. Whether the outcome is expected or not is another question. Occasionally in a classroom investigation the "wrong" outcome is the only result. At times like this we doubt the results obtained even by the authors of the investigation.

Publication Date

April 1969

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers' Journal

Volume

6

Issue

4

First Page

3

Last Page

8

Copyright

© Copyright 1969 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Thompson, John F. (1969) "Expected Student Outcomes in Earth Science Investigations," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 6: No. 4, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol6/iss4/3