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Abstract This quantitative research aims to evaluate the impact of inquiry-based labs on middle school students’ scientific writing skills and engagement in science education. Based on McNeill and Krajcik’s (2012) framework of Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER), this study focuses on approximately 160 seventh-grade students in a suburban middle school in the Northeast United States. The research questions for the study are as follows: (1) Do inquiry-based labs as an instructional method affect...