Section 1
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Research
This section of your Learner’s Skills Book helps you to develop your research skills using interesting global topics.
Starting with . . .
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As you start to develop your research skills, you will learn what the term ‘research’ means, and you will start to identify, discuss and write basic questions to help you focus on information you need to find out. You will practise discussing global topics and making notes on the information that you find so that you can tell someone about a topic in your own words. You will start to understand how to select different research methods for different purposes and give credit to the words of others.
Developing . . .
As you develop your research skills, you will begin to start constructing research questions. There are good and bad research questions and you will discuss the features of a good research question and begin to be able to tell the difference between good and bad research questions. You will also explore the difference between primary and secondary research methods and learn how to produce a questionnaire to get information about local issues from the people you know.
Getting better at . . .
As you get better at research, you will explore different sources of information on a variety of global issues and use the information you gain in a variety of ways, including creating presentations. You will increase your understanding of primary and secondary sources of information and become more confident in using a search engine. You will also understand why it is important to give credit to other peoples’ work and how their work can make yours even better.
