Research On Evaluation Model Of Geography Inquiry Teaching

A major hotspot of Education today, is to explore ways to improve students' learning skills and enthusiasm for learning. Inquiry teaching is the best option. High School geography is a subject that advances people's personal basic skills, so its inquiry teaching is more necessary. As an effective means of teaching, geography inquiry teaching needs evaluation to provide an opportunity to perfect itself for the geography inquiry teaching in next phase. This requires a relatively reasonable evaluation model. Domestic scholars and foreign scholars have done many researches in geography inquiry teaching on the theoretical and practical aspects, but the research in evaluation of geography inquiry teaching is very weak. This discourse attempts to build an evaluation model of geography inquiry teaching that could provide feedback to geography inquiry teaching to guide the geography inquiry teaching process.This article contains four parts: significance of topics, theoretical foundation, modeling and experiment on model.The first part, author summed up the contemporary studying status on the evaluation of geography inquiry teaching, and analyzed the achievement and the existing problems, then learn from the experience already, to extract the significance of this paper.The second part, from education, psychology, geography new curriculum standards, theory of geography curriculum and teaching, education surveying etc, author seek the gist of theories and support of methods for this study.The third part is mainly on the construction of evaluation model of geography inquiry teaching. It's about the purpose of the model, idea of the model construction, modeling standards, model indexes and their weight, the Operational mechanisms of the model, and other aspects.The fourth part is experiments on evaluation model of geography inquiry teaching in high school. Experiments make up of two groups, Grade one and Grade two in high school, and experiments verify the validity of the model.The construction of valuation model of Geography inquiry teaching is a novel idea. The model provides feedback for the geography inquiry teaching to guide next phases of the geography inquiry teaching, so that geography inquiry teaching is in continuous improvement.