Chemical Inquiry-based Classroom Establish The Evaluation System

Inquiry Teaching is the focus of current education reform,and it is also one of the important theoretical issues which waits for studying and practical issues,so it has the significant research value.Back in the early 20th century,the United States educator John Dewey had called attention to the scientific method to explore education and teaching experiment,to the mid-century,the research and experiment of inquiry teaching was more to a climax in the United States,and spread to many other Countries.In the early 1980s,with the implementation of the policy of reform and opening up, foreign educational exchange increased,some domestic educational workers started to introduce that the West "the inquisition,discovered" the study,a small number teachers have begun to explore the practice.Now,the new curriculum standards of all scientific disciplines in China already have the science education as the core content.However,the current domestic studies on the evaluation of the quality of inquiry classroom are not many and not mature,which will undoubtedly hinder the further development of Inquiry Teaching.Based on the definition of the concept related to the inquiry classroom and explore the characteristics of the inquiry classroom,this article introduced the inquiry classroom evaluation index system and evaluation methods.First of all,while learning from existing research results,at the same time unifies to the national experts' investigation,interviews,the six elements of Inquiry in Scientific(grade 7～9) course standard(experiment draft) as the first-level evaluation indicators:1. putting forward the scientific issues;2.conjecture and assumption;3.making a plan and designing the experiment;4.observing the experiment,gaining fact and evidence;5.testing and evaluation;6. expression and exchange.Then,the whole event divides into the teachers' classroom performance and students' activity performance two parts,and set them as the second-level evaluation indicators. And through the literature analysis,we find the factors of the first-level evaluation indicators and the second-level evaluation indicators and form the third-level evaluation indicators to form the ultimate indicator system.Then,we use AHP to determine the weight system.The weight of the first-level evaluation indicators:0.227,0.136,0.273,0.227,0.091,0.045;the weight of the teachers and students:0.167,0.833.Finally,the middle school chemistry inquiry class was evaluated by the designed rating scale.Looking from the results of the analysis,evaluation index has a reliability and operability,however,indicators also need the long-term positive continuous improvement,the weight can also be adjusted based on the actual need of the evaluation of the scientific classroom. In this paper,the research methods are:literature research,surveys,interviews.Through the literature research to explore the status of the classroom evaluation,then the evaluation index system is identified by the interviews with experts.Through the questionnaire survey,the vales of the importance at all levels of the indicators are obtained,thereby obtain the weight by using AHP.This paper is divided into six parts:The first part:Introduction.Bring forward the questions and conclude the status of the research, expatiate the function and significance of this study.The second part:The content of the inquiry classroom.Definition of related concepts,explore the impact factors,characteristics and evaluation principles of the inquiry classroom.The third part:The establishment of inquiry classroom evaluation index system.The function of the index system,design ideas and design principles are expatiated,a complete evaluation index system of inquiry classroom is set up.The fourth part:The establishment of the weight system of the classroom evaluation index. Based on the survey,by using AHP we explore the establishment of the weight system of the classroom evaluation index.The fifth part:The example analysis.The quality of the chemical inquiry classrooms in the middle school is analyzed by the new rating scale.The sixth part:conclusions and prospects.Reversing the whole process of research process,and advancing the future developing direction by the deficiencies of the evaluation indicators.