This question guides your research.
What is an inquiry question?
These help you remember important information from sources.
What are research notes?
These are problems that happen again and again.
What are recurring problems?
This includes the different tools researchers use to find and understand information.
What is a research toolbox?
This level asks you to explain or organize information you already know.
What is Level 2?
This type of question cannot be answered with just yes or no.
What is an open-ended question?
You should write research notes in these instead of copying word-for-word.
What are your own words?
When a problem keeps happening, researchers should look for this.
What is the cause?
This online tool helps researchers find websites and information.
What is a search engine?
This level asks you to use information to solve a problem or make a connection.
What is Level 3?
This helps you learn more about a problem.
What is research?
These tell where your information came from.
What are sources?
This is something that can help fix a problem.
What is a solution?
Researchers use these to check whether information is trustworthy.
What are reliable resources?
This level focuses on remembering facts and basic information.
What is Level 1?
A strong inquiry question should lead to this.
What is deeper research?
Research notes can help you answer this.
What is your inquiry question?
Researchers study this to understand why a problem happens.
What is evidence?
Using more than one source gives you different this.
What are perspectives?
A question asking “Why does this problem keep happening?” requires more than simply remembering a fact.
What is higher-level thinking?
This question helps you explore causes, effects, or solutions.
What is an inquiry question?
Good notes should include important facts and information about the source.
What is the source information?
Studying a recurring problem can help researchers find better this.
What are solutions?
These tools work together to help answer your inquiry question.
What are research tools?
The higher the Costa’s Level, the more a question requires you to do this with information.
What is analyze and apply?