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
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