In the Beginning...
A bound or digital collection of maps, typically featuring geographical, topographical, or thematic data for regions, countries, or the entire world.
What is an atlas?
The CRAAP test is used as one of these in research.
What is a source evaluation tool?
First-hand account of an event or an actual item created during the time period being researched.
What is a primary source?
A pirate's favorite letter and what each answer in this category will begin with.
What is R?
A state of being free from prejudice, favoritism, or personal influence, allowing for fair, objective, and impartial judgment.
What is unbiased?
A typically themed collection of information stored in a computer system that is highly organized and designed for efficient searching and retrieval.
What is a database?
The letter C in the acronym CRAAP represents this topic. BONUS 50 PTS: Explain what it means.
What is currency (how up-to-date the resource is in regards to your research topic)?
Biographies, documentaries, and textbooks are all examples of this type of resource.
What is a secondary source?
An exhaustive examination of a topic to gain further knowledge of it.
What is research?
To yield better search results, do this. Answers may vary.
What is rephrase your keywords, change search engines or platforms (database), add quotation marks, use Boolean operators, select or apply filters, etc.?
Starting with the letter B, a comprehensive list of all sources—books, articles, websites, and documents—consulted during research, placed at the end of a paper to credit authors, avoid plagiarism, and enable further reading.
What is a bibliography?
The letter R in the acronym CRAAP represents this topic. BONUS 50 PTS: Explain what it means.
What is relevance (how much the resource relates to your research topic/answers your questions)?
Refers to a degree of excellence; how good, bad, useful, etc. something is.
What is quality?
A section of the library that was set up primarily to ensure access and availability of materials to patrons by preventing these items from being checked out.
What is the reference section?
Finding tools (like bibliographies, search engines, and databases) that direct you to primary and secondary sources.
What are tertiary sources?
An educated, testable guess or proposed explanation for a phenomenon, used as a starting point for further investigation. It acts as a tentative answer to a research question that can be supported or refuted through observation and experimentation.
What is a hypothesis?
The letter A appears twice in the acronym CRAAP; provide one of the words they represent. BONUS 50 PTS: Provide the other word beginning with A.
What is authority or accuracy?
List the three types of learning styles. Partial credit available.
What are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile?
The range of resources one should strive for when conducting research.
What is 5 - 7 resources?
Mrs. Hayden used this company name to represent copying or plagiarism when you were working through the end of the Research ABCs. Spelling counts!
What is Xerox?
The words AND, OR, NOT are referred to as this and are used during web searches to expand or limit your search results.
What are Boolean operators?
The letter P in the acronym CRAAP represents this topic. BONUS 50 PTS: Explain what it means.
What is purpose (why the resource was created in the first place)?
The database that helps you with getting both sides to controversial topics; ideal for doing research for debates or if you need opinion-based articles.
What is Opposing Viewpoints?
Items that are trustworthy, authoritative, and evidence-based —such as peer-reviewed journals, academic books, and reputable news outlets—that provide accurate, unbiased, and vetted information are known to be this R word.
What is reliable?
List all 5 of the "Ws" from the old school research method. BONUS 50 PTS: Include the answer for the letter H.
What is who, what, when, where, why (and how)?