Analyzing the Role of Inquiry in Promoting the Effect of Flipped Classroom on Students' Learning and Reaction

The present study sought to validate a technological and initiative pedagogy: a teaching model called Flipped Inquiry-Based Learning (Fibal). In terms of purpose, this study was applied. In terms of how to collect the data to examine and answer the two proposed research questions, it is classified in quantitative research method designs. Four pre-formed classes available in one of the national universities in Tehran were used. The semi-experimental comparison between learning groups (semi-experimental designs of the unequal control group: pre-test and post-test) have been implemented. In order to validate the research data collection tools, content validity and Cronbach's alpha reliability estimation test were used. Several statistical tests such as one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Welchs, Tamhane's T2 and Dunnett's test were used in order to examine the statistical data related to learning and students' reaction in four classes (146 students in total). The results showed that with 99% confidence, the learning rate of Fibal class students is more and meaningful than the learning of students of "non-flipped traditional" and "simple flipped" classes. At the same time, despite the superiority of the average learning scores of Fibal class students over the "non-flipped inquiry" class, this superiority was not statistically significant. Also, with a 99% confidence level, the reaction rate of students trained through the Fibal approach is better than the reaction rate of students trained through the "non-flipped traditional" and the "simple flipped" and the "non-flipped inquiry" approaches.