Question generating tool
- 1. RESEARCH QUESTION GENERATION Focus – What is the topic? Describe your topic here
- 2. Thing we Know and Want to KnowBrainstorm under the two columns as much as you can about the topic already and ideas about what you could or want to find out about it. You can use this tool to help with your question generation. DON’T JUDGE ANYTHING AT THIS STAGE!! • Think we know • Greenhouse gases (CO2) causes global warming • Sulphuric dioxide and nitric oxide are main reasons of global warming • The world is heating up, leading to more summer days and less winter days • Want to know • Which greenhouse hurts the most to humans • How many other ways are there to stop global warming • life before global warming and life after the world ended because of global warming • How global warming will affect our lives if it gets worse
- 3. 10 of the Best! 1) effects of global warming which affects us 2) causes and consequences of global warming 3) how will global warming affect our everyday life if it has become worse than it is now 4) what are the other reasons that is heating up the earth 5) life before global warming 6) what is global warming 7) how to prevent global warming 8) what will happen if the world ends because of global warming 9) without manmade warming what would the average temperature be 10) what impact has overpopulation have on global warming 1. Copy the best 10 statements/ questions from the last exercise. 1. Change any statements to questions at this point. 1. Identify any closed question by highlighting them.
- 4. Closed to OpenFor genuine effective enquiry it is better to have a series of open questions. These are questions that cannot be answered simply but instead, need research and analysis to be addressed. If any of the questions in your list are closed, then now is the time to try and make them open. Closed e.g. “How can climate change be stopped?” This is a relatively closed question because the answer is simply to stop putting CO2 into the atmosphere. Open An improved version of this question might be…”To what extent can the effects of climate change be off set?”. This question requires investigation and analysis of the conflicting information that will be out there. Closed Write any closed questions here Open Write the open versions of your questions here
- 5. Review and Improve Your improved questions here Question stems are a good way of helping to improve your questions. The stems below are useful in constructing good research questions. Use these to modify your questions and see if you can improve them. To what extent…? How far…? Whose responsibility is it…? Should…? Do the benefits of… outweigh the disadvantages? What is more important…?
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- 7. Evaluate Your Final QuestionThis tool might help you take a final critical look at your question. How does it score on the scales? A “good” question will score highly in all areas.