Roth, & Kampmeier, 2002); (D. Ebert-May, C. Brewer, & S. Allred, 1997). Surveys of
instructional practices suggest that inquiry-based scientific investigations have been widely
embraced in college biology laboratory curricula over the past decade, reportedly ballooning
from less than 10% to almost 80% of laboratory classrooms at universities in the U.S.
(Sundberg & Armstrong, 1992; Sundberg, Armstrong, & Wischusen, 2005).