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Research Assignments Without Thesis Statements

Unleash the Power of Questions

Jim Nichols, Penfield Library

Spring Breakout, May 22, 2017

https://3directions.blogspot.com

Q Focus

Students get stuck on supporting a thesis or on reporting on a topic, and struggle with launching an inquiry.

Worksheet for Today

Experiencing the QFT

Worksheet for Today

Question Formulation Technique

Question Formulation Technique

  • Its origins
  • How to do it in a classroom

Uses and Limitations of the QFT

Uses

  • Classroom engagement
  • Critical thinking
  • Ways of knowing
  • Research process

Limitations

  • K-12 roots
  • QFT as scaffold
  • Face-to-face classroom based

How Can Medical Students Learn to Ask Better Questions?

QFT in the QDU:

And the ACRL Framework

Question Activity for Online Tutorial

QFT in the QDU:

And the ACRL Framework

  • Question-Discover-Use
  • Information Literacy Learning Goals
  • ACRL Framework for Information Literacy
  • Any Questions? And Other Matters
  • Any Questions? And Other Matters