Inquiry-Based Learning and Information Literacy

1. Take some time to think about your topic. Now write down what you know about it.

Inquiry-based learning is when either the students are presented with a topic/question or the students think of the topic themselves and they need to research it using a range of sources.

2. How interested are you in this topic? Circle the answer that best matches your interest.

Not at all not much quite a bit a great deal

3. How much do you know about this topic? Circle the answer that best matches how much you know.

Nothing not much quite a bit a great deal

4. When you do research, what do you generally find easy to do? Please list as many things as you like.

I generally find it relatively easy to locate books that are relevant to my topic

Find useful information within the source

Find sources that cover both sides of the argument/topic

5. When you do research, what do you generally find difficult to do? Please list as many things as you like.

I sometimes find it difficult to locate useful articles in databases. I think this could be because I don't construct appropriate search terms as I rarely use boolean operators.