Review: Research Process as Inquiry (Theme/Frame)

Research is iterative and depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers, in turn, develop additional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.

What does this mean? New information exists in the world because someone asked a great question. As a student, learner, human being--it's your job to ask good questions and find new, interesting answers!

Students often choose research topics they already find very familiar. It's easy to start your research in an area that interests you, but if you already know the answers to all of your own questions and/or have some confirmation bias, it would make your research boring. In addition, you won't grow from the experience. Recall some of the recommendations from the PQRC videos, the Credo modules, and tutorials from last week. From these, you identified some key strategies in selecting a "researchable" topic, one that you are curious about, one that interests you, but yet one that you don't have a strong opinion about or just minimal knowledge. Consider your research topic a problem for which you are investigating a solution.  The specific language for this frame is here: Research as Inquiry. Links to an external site.

Watch these videos. "Research as Inquiry" is also referred to as "Research as a Process".

 

 

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