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  • Scientific inquiry in elementary science education.
  • Developing scientific thinking skills.

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  • Scientific inquiry is crucial for science education but its processes and link to performance are underexplored.
  • Understanding how students engage in inquiry is key to improving science learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the scientific inquiry processes of fourth-grade students using simulation-based assessment.
  • To analyze macro- and micro-level behavioral patterns in scientific inquiry.
  • To examine the association between inquiry patterns and task performance (effectiveness and efficiency).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized process data from a structured simulation-based assessment task involving 259 fourth-grade students.
  • Applied a multi-analytic approach: sequential pattern mining, entropy analysis, and process mining.
  • Analyzed both macro-level (overall process structure) and micro-level (experimental coordination) inquiry behaviors.

Main Results:

  • Effective students exhibited more iterative evidence collection cycles before responding.
  • Effective and efficient students demonstrated superior strategic coordination during experimentation.
  • Distinct inquiry patterns were identified at both macro- and micro-levels.

Conclusions:

  • Student scientific inquiry processes can be characterized at multiple levels, linking patterns to effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Process data from simulation-based assessments can diagnose inquiry skills.
  • Findings can inform personalized scaffolding in elementary science education.