Research as Inquiry
Research is iterative and depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers in turn develop additional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.
From How Info Works:
- Searching is a skill set: search mechanics matter.
- The mental flexibility to ask a question in many different ways of many different kinds of sources – and learn as you go – is also necessary.
- Who you are affects how you search. Learn to stretch.
- Searching can get convoluted; stay organized
From the Framework:
"Novice learners acquire strategic perspectives on inquiry and a greater repertoire of investigative methods."
Strategy for Developing Research as Inquiry: Question Formulation Technique
Knowledge Practice:
Learners who are developing their information literate abilities
- formulate questions for research based on information gaps or on reexamination of existing, possibly conflicting, information
Disposition:
Learners who are developing their information literate abilities
- consider research as open-ended exploration and engagement with information;
- appreciate that a question may appear to be simple but still disruptive and important to research;
- value intellectual curiosity in developing questions and learning new investigative methods
Question Formulation Technique
From The Right Question Institute
The Question Formulation Technique for Research - Right Question Institute
1)Question Focus
2)Produce Your Questions
üFollow the rules
üNumber your questions
3)Improve Your Questions
üCategorize questions as Closed or Open-ended
üChange questions from one type to another
4)Strategize
üPrioritize your questions
üAction plan or discuss next steps
üShare
5)Reflect
