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Record W4412702196 · doi:10.5539/jel.v14n6p406

The Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Laboratory Manual for Junior High School Biology

2025· article· en· W4412702196 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Yuan Xu, Connie D. Julian

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Education and Learning · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicScience Education and Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMathematics educationCurriculumScope (computer science)PsychologyMedical educationPedagogyComputer scienceMedicine

Abstract

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This study embarked on the development of a comprehensive Junior High School Biological Inquiry Experiment Manual. This manual was utilized in a research initiative involving 30 students in the control group and an equal number in the experimental group. Rigorous data analysis techniques, encompassing mean values, standard deviations, paired t-tests, and more were employed to meticulously evaluate the efficacy of the newly developed experimental manual. The results showed that compared with the original textbooks of D Middle School, the developed Junior Middle School Biology Inquiry Laboratory Manual helps to improve students’ interest, attitude and grade performance, so the newly developed Junior High School Biology Inquiry Experiment Manual is effective. It helps to cultivate students’ core quality of Biology. In the future, the researcher may continue refining and updating the manual to ensure its effectiveness over time, such as adding visual videos of experiments, enriching inquiry experiments on human structure and function, at the same time, researchers may consider replicating this study on a larger scope by including participants from a broader spectrum, expanding the research’s scope and depth.In the transition between the old and new curriculum standards, and under the background of double reduction, this study will lay a foundation for the in-depth development of Junior High School Biology experiment textbooks.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.047
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Non-randomized trial · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.085

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.047
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.442
Teacher spread0.415 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNon-randomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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