“…A review of literature on inquiry-based instruction displayed a number of empirical research findings on the importance of systematic inquiry (Schulz & Mandzuk, 2005;Van der Linden, Bakx, Ros, Beijaard & Vermeulen, 2012), providing sufficient inquiry-based learning experiences (Newman et al, 2004), the contribution to professional development (Schulz and Mandzuk, 2005;Pendry and Husbands, 2000), gaining research knowledge and skills (Schulz & Mandzuk, 2005;Sozbilir, 2007;Van der Linden et al, 2012), student teachers' developing understandings of scientific inquiry process (Haefner, 2004;Richardson and Liang, 2008), student teachers' getting motivated to do research (Sozbilir, 2007), involving student teachers in active and student-centred learning (Spronken-Smith, Bullard, Ray, Roberts, & Keiffer, 2008), the necessity of developing more collaborative research projects (Gitlin, Barlow, Burbank, Kauchak, & Stevens, 1999).…”