Question formation: A teachable art

Badia, Giovanna

doi:10.1080/10691316.2016.1167501

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“…Strangman and Knowles (2012) created lessons for an introductory business research methods class that included a three-day research question unit that substantially improved students' questions. Badia (2016) conducted a class in which students created research questions from general topics and then discussed each question to determine its quality. Unlike Strangman and Knowles (2012), Badia did not provide any formal assessment data, noting only that the students gave positive feedback on the activity.…”

Section: Posing Effective Research Questions: a Review Of The Literaturementioning

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Confronting Failure: Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

2022

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In this open-access book, authors from a range of disciplines—from geosciences to drama—capture how failure manifests and can be productively supported in a range of undergraduate research experiences. Whether the learning environment is a STEM research lab, a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), a humanities summer undergraduate research experience, a library, or the stage, students can benefit from support when they experience a gap between an expected/desired result and their lived experience. These perspectives and disciplinary contexts address failure from different vantage points and lenses, with the common focal point of nurturing undergraduate success through leveraging failure as an opportunity to build confidence and resilience. Represented are different institutional types, classroom and non-classroom environments, and programmatic and individual efforts.

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Confronting Failure: Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

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Chapter 8. No Such Thing as a Bad Question: Using Rubrics to Help Students Learn from and Strengthen Failed Research Questions

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Spieth³

2022

Confronting Failure: Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

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This chapter uses findings from a mixed-methods study of undergraduates’ research experiences in a developmental writing course at a small, private university to suggest that writing bad research questions is a necessary part of the research process and that students can learn valuable lessons from the struggle to pose effective questions if given the necessary support. It offers a set of rubrics that can be used to evaluate the debatability, researchability, and feasibility of students’ research questions to help students turn failed research questions into successful ones.

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“…Knowing how to formulate this type of question that will further your research on a topic is something students find difficult. Badia [4] states that students typically have a "lack of real purpose" when conducting research. She has found that even though the ACRL Information Literacy Standards identify the need for students to be competent in question formulation, there are not many examples on how to effectively teach this skill.…”

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“…As Palmer & Tucker [9] determined, introducing information literacy skills in a disciplinary context is more effective in skills retention. Furthermore, many first-year students have a higher level of confidence in their research abilities than is warranted by the evidence [4], [5], [10]. As Kirker & Stonebraker [11] found, student perception of doing research is affected by their pre-existing knowledge which may not be adequate for college-level research.…”

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Promoting Engineering Research Early – A Case Study of Research Question Formulation in a First-year Engineering Course

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Borgaonkar

Scharf

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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She is currently the Science and Engineering Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and liaison to the departments of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Chemical and Materials Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Physics. Having worked as a Professional Engineer in the Power Industry, she understands what industry expects of new engineers and uses her practical experience in both engineering and higher education to improve the research skills of engineering students before they embark on their professional careers.

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Question formation: A teachable art

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Confronting Failure: Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

Confronting Failure: Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers

Chapter 8. No Such Thing as a Bad Question: Using Rubrics to Help Students Learn from and Strengthen Failed Research Questions

Promoting Engineering Research Early – A Case Study of Research Question Formulation in a First-year Engineering Course

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