One
begins with a restricted generalization descriptive
of phenomena encountered in one field
of inquiry (e.g., physics, physiology, psychology, etc.); one then (as he says) «makes a flight into the thin air
of generalization» — framing the description to cover all actualities — finally landing again to see how the theory squares with observed fact in
areas other than the one from which the
inquiry began.
Our testing practices themselves have changed very little since our inception as a school, but we've
begun to use the data in a more meaningful way, restructuring our grade teams to become
inquiry teams focused on the growth
of students across all subject
areas.