Inquiry Questions
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?
These are tools that help you find information.
What is a research toolbox?
This level focuses on remembering facts and basic information.
What is Level 1?
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?
Using more than one source gives you different this.
What are perspectives?
This level asks you to explain or organize information you already know.
What is Level 2?
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 sources?
This level asks you to use information to solve a problem or make a connection.
What is Level 3?
A strong inquiry question should lead to this.
What is deeper research?
Comparing notes from several sources can help you find this.
What are different perspectives?
Researchers study this to understand why a problem happens.
What is evidence?
Using several sources can help researchers compare 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?
These notes should connect directly to the main question you are trying to answer.
What is an inquiry question?
Studying a recurring problem can help researchers find better this.
What are solutions?
Choosing the right research tool depends on the information you need to find.
What is a research strategy?
The higher the Costa’s Level, the more a question requires you to do this with information.
What is analyze and apply?