Research Skills: Grade 11

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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