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HyperInquiry

  • Employs an inductive inquiry technique adapted from Taba.
  • Ref: Dempsey, J.V. & Litchfield, B.C. (2001). Surfing Below the Surface of the Web: HyperInquiry. In Web-based Training , B.H. Kahn, Educational Technology Publications.

HyperInquiry Three-Phase Model

  • Concept formation
  • Interpretation of data
  • Application of principles

Concept Formation

Overt Activity
Covert Mental Operations
Eliciting Questions
A. Enumeration, listing Differentiation, identifying separate items What did you hear or note?
B. Grouping

Identifying common properties, abstracting

What belongs together?

On what criterion?
C. Labeling, categorizing

Determining the hierarchial order of items - super and subordination

What would you call these groups?

What belongs to what?

Forming Concepts

  • What belongs together? On what criteria?
  • What would you call these groups?
  • What belongs to what?
  • What did you see? hear? note?

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