Research Skills: Grade 11
From Rsgc Library
By the end of grade 11, students will:
Inquiry and Research: Reasoning
- critique own questions as essential and non-essential
- form questions into thesis and reflect on continual appropriateness of thesis
- select specialized atlases, such as regional and economic atlases
- select bibliographies
- analyse the validity of hypothesis of a resource by examining its primary and secondary resources
- construct logic statements to test the validity of an argument
- recognize personal learning styles and their impact on research and problem solving
- set goals for improvement in next research activity
Inquiry and Research: Organizing
- describe different classification systems
- use specialized indexes such as literary, legal, bibiliographic, biographic and business indexes
- create abstracts
- use outlining and flowchart software to organize data
- use advanced surveys
- re-examine currency of research and modify product in light of new findings
Inquiry and Research: Communicating
- use formal debate strategies to explore ideas during the research process
- use formal meeting strategies to share ideas during research
- use abstracts in peer and teacher conferencing to check progress
- publish information in virtual formats such as web pages
Inquiry and Research: Applying
- examine published hypotheses for similarities and differences with own hypothesis
- use special libraries, local and virtual, for information
- search the Internet using a range of strategies available in a variety of meta search engines
- begin to extend insights and opinions from findings
- relate research findings to global perspectives
- make judgments and draw conclusions to solve problems
- suggest areas for further research
