Category Archives: 8.12 (A-J)
(12) Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The
student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of
purposes. The student is expected to:
(A) generate student-selected and teacher-guided questions for formal and informal inquiry;
(B) develop and revise a plan;
(C) refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set
of questions;
(D) identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;
(E) differentiate between primary and secondary sources;
(F) synthesize information from a variety of sources;
(G) differentiate between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;
(H) examine sources for:
(i) reliability, credibility, and bias, including omission; and
(ii) faulty reasoning such as bandwagon appeals, repetition, and loaded language;
(I) display academic citations and use source materials ethically; and
(J) use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present
results.