Research Questions - United States of America
Science Practices: Developing Research Questions
Webinars
Asking Good Research Questions with Dr. Michael Jabot, SUNY Fredonia
Q&A
Q: Some students cannot come up with any questions. Are there strategies for engaging students in question formulation process?
Dr. Mike Jabot: Use the Q-focus in the Question Formulation Technique. This uses phenomenon to stimulate question generation. For ideas, check out NGSS phenomena.
Q: How do we help students figure out what an appropriate experiment would be based on time, funding, level, and equipment constraints?
Dr. Mike Jabot: Don't constrain their questions at first. Work with students to make this realization themselves. Once they have identified things that are out of their realm, they can work towards narrowing their questions.
Question Formulation Technique with Dr. Michael Jabot, SUNY Fredonia
Developing Age-Appropriate Research Questions with Dr. Kevin Czajkowski, University of Toledo
Resources
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SCRC Webinar: Scientist Skills: How to develop a research question
BLOG POSTS
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Developing Good Research Questions- blog post by Bill Meyers, a GLOBE teacher from Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, Colorado .
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Writing Meaningful Research Question blog post by GLOBE Science Working Group member Claudia Cecilia Caro Vera.
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How To Come Up With a Good Research Question: Clouds Edition, blog post by Marile Colon Robles, NASA Langley.