Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
AP Research Instructional Approaches
Organizing the Course Inquiry and the Academic Conversation
“Critical inquiry focuses on the creation of new ideas, perspectives, and arguments. Teachers must help students understand that the research process is not simply about collecting evidence or facts and then piecing them together. The research process is about inquiry- asking questions and coming to solutions and conclusions through serious thinking and reflection" (College Board, 2024). "The researcher seeks relevant information in articles, books, and other sources and develops an informed perspective built on, but not merely derivative of, the ideas in the examined material. As a result, the research process is recursive, meaning the researcher regularly revisits ideas, seeks new information when necessary, and reconsiders and refines the research questions, topic, and/or approach" (College Board, 2024).
Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Hopscotch 4-AP Research supports research design alignment.
What is research alignment?
Click and Expand Visualize Alignment
Example:Qualitative Alignment
Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Course Content: Big Ideas
Question and Explore
Understand and Analyze
Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
Synthesize Ideas
Team, Transform, Transmit
Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Teaching the Skills
Core Skill Area
Identyfiyning and Refining Research Questions
Seeking and Synthesizing Background Information
Aligning Study/Research Design
Analyzing and Evaluating Findings
Showcasing Scholarly Work
Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Academic Paper
Required Element
Introducation and Literature Review
Method, Process, or Approach
Results, Products, or Findings
Discussion, Analysis, and/or Evaluation Conclusions and Future Directions
Bibliography
Writing The Academic Paper & Communication
Teaching the Skills:
Showcasing Scholarly work
The process of conveying a clear message in a way that engages and appeals to a specific audience.
Essential Questions
Challenge and expand the boundries of your current knowledge.
What do I want to know, learn, or understand? What questions have yet to be asked? How does my research question shape how I go about answering it? How does How can I assess the quality or strength of others' research, products, or artistic works?
Academic Paper:
Method, Process, or Approach
Explains and provides justification for the chosen method, process, or approach and its alignment with the research question.
Writing the Methods Section
Example: Quantitative Components
Academic Paper:
Writing and Communicating Your Way to a 5!
Teaching the Skills:
Analyzing and Evaluating Findings
The process of interpreting the significance of the findings, results, or product and exploring connections to the original research question and project goal.
Essential Questions
Consider individual perspectives and the larger conversation of varied points of view.
How might others see a problem or issue differently? What patterns or trends can be identified among the arguments about this issue? What are the implications and/or consequences of accepting or rejecting a particular argument? How can I connect the multiple arguments? What other issues, questions, or topics do they relate to? How can I explain contradictions within or between arguments? From whose perspective is this information being presented, and how does that affect my evaluation?
Academic Paper:
Results, Product, or Findings
Presents the findings, evidence, results, or performance/exhibit/product generated by the research method.
Writing the Methods Section
Presents the findings, evidence, results, performance/exhibit/product, or findings.
Explores connections to original research question/project goal.
Teaching the Skills:
Seeking and Synthesizing Background Information
The process of becoming familiar with and synthesizing what other have discovered about the topic so that the scholar can verify the existence of a problem or gap in the knowledge base to form the basis of a long-term investigation.
How is a literature review like a conversation?
Podcast
Open Access Databases
Teaching the Skills:
Aligning Study Design
The process of identyfing an aligned, feasible research or inquiry design to accomplish the purpose of the research question and or project goal while taking into consideration time, constraints, availablity of resources, participant accessibility, and paperwork due to ethics guidelines.
Introducing Step 6
Teaching the Skills:
Identifying and Refining Research Questions
The process of narrowing a scope of interest into a research question to serve as the foundation of a long-term investigation or inquiry.
Essential Questions
Combine knowledge, ideas, and your own perspective into an argument.
How do I connect and analyze the evidence in order to develop an argument and support a conclusion? Are there other conclusions I should consider? How does my scholarly work emerge from my perspective, design choices, or aesthetic rationale? How do I acknowledge and account for my own biases and assumptions? What is the most appropriate way to acknowledge and attribute the work of others that was used to support my argument? How do I ensure the conclusions I present are my own?
Academic Paper:
Discussion, Analysis, and/or Evaluation
Interprets the significance of the results, performance/exhibit/product, or findings; Explores connections to the original research question/project goal.
Conclusions and Future Directions
Articulates the new understanding generated through the research process and limitations of the conclusion or creative work.Discusses the implications to the community of practice.Identifies areas for future research.
Essential Questions
Contextualize arguments and comprehend author's claims.
What strategies will help me comprehend a text? What is the main idea of the argument or artistic work, and what reasoning does the author use to develop it? What biases may the author have that influence his or her perspective? Does this argument acknowledge other perspectives? How can I assess the quality or strength of others' research, products, or artistic works?
Essential Questions
Collaborate, reflect, and communicate your arguemnt in a method suited to your audience.
How can I best appeal to and engage my audience? What is the best medium or genre through which to reach my audience? How might I adapt my written and oral presentations for different audiences and situations? How might my communication choices affect my credibility with my audience? Which revision strategies are most appropriate to developing and refining my project at different stages? How do I provide feedback that is valuable to others? How do I act upon feedback I have received? How can I benefit from reflecting on my own work?
Academic Paper:
Introduction and Literature Review
How is a literature review like a conversation?
Introduces project goal.
Reviews previous work in the field. Synthesizes the various perspectives in the scholarly literature to situate the research question/project goal within a gap in the current field of knowledge.
Introduces research question.
Qualitative Alignment Example: Social Media and Teen Mental Health
Academic Paper:
Bibliography
Provides a complete list of sources cited and consulted in the appropriate disciplinary style.
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Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
AP Research Instructional Approaches Organizing the Course Inquiry and the Academic Conversation
“Critical inquiry focuses on the creation of new ideas, perspectives, and arguments. Teachers must help students understand that the research process is not simply about collecting evidence or facts and then piecing them together. The research process is about inquiry- asking questions and coming to solutions and conclusions through serious thinking and reflection" (College Board, 2024). "The researcher seeks relevant information in articles, books, and other sources and develops an informed perspective built on, but not merely derivative of, the ideas in the examined material. As a result, the research process is recursive, meaning the researcher regularly revisits ideas, seeks new information when necessary, and reconsiders and refines the research questions, topic, and/or approach" (College Board, 2024).
Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Hopscotch 4-AP Research supports research design alignment.
What is research alignment?
Click and Expand Visualize Alignment
Example:Qualitative Alignment
Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Course Content: Big Ideas
Question and Explore
Understand and Analyze
Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
Synthesize Ideas
Team, Transform, Transmit
Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Teaching the Skills
Core Skill Area
Identyfiyning and Refining Research Questions
Seeking and Synthesizing Background Information
Aligning Study/Research Design
Analyzing and Evaluating Findings
Showcasing Scholarly Work
Alignment of QUEST & Hopscotch 4-AP Research: Recursive Research Design Model
Academic Paper
Required Element
Introducation and Literature Review
Method, Process, or Approach
Results, Products, or Findings
Discussion, Analysis, and/or Evaluation Conclusions and Future Directions
Bibliography
Writing The Academic Paper & Communication
Teaching the Skills:
Showcasing Scholarly work
The process of conveying a clear message in a way that engages and appeals to a specific audience.
Essential Questions
Challenge and expand the boundries of your current knowledge.
What do I want to know, learn, or understand? What questions have yet to be asked? How does my research question shape how I go about answering it? How does How can I assess the quality or strength of others' research, products, or artistic works?
Academic Paper:
Method, Process, or Approach
Explains and provides justification for the chosen method, process, or approach and its alignment with the research question.
Writing the Methods Section
Example: Quantitative Components
Academic Paper:
Writing and Communicating Your Way to a 5!
Teaching the Skills:
Analyzing and Evaluating Findings
The process of interpreting the significance of the findings, results, or product and exploring connections to the original research question and project goal.
Essential Questions
Consider individual perspectives and the larger conversation of varied points of view.
How might others see a problem or issue differently? What patterns or trends can be identified among the arguments about this issue? What are the implications and/or consequences of accepting or rejecting a particular argument? How can I connect the multiple arguments? What other issues, questions, or topics do they relate to? How can I explain contradictions within or between arguments? From whose perspective is this information being presented, and how does that affect my evaluation?
Academic Paper:
Results, Product, or Findings
Presents the findings, evidence, results, or performance/exhibit/product generated by the research method.
Writing the Methods Section
Presents the findings, evidence, results, performance/exhibit/product, or findings.
Explores connections to original research question/project goal.
Teaching the Skills:
Seeking and Synthesizing Background Information
The process of becoming familiar with and synthesizing what other have discovered about the topic so that the scholar can verify the existence of a problem or gap in the knowledge base to form the basis of a long-term investigation.
How is a literature review like a conversation?
Podcast
Open Access Databases
Teaching the Skills:
Aligning Study Design
The process of identyfing an aligned, feasible research or inquiry design to accomplish the purpose of the research question and or project goal while taking into consideration time, constraints, availablity of resources, participant accessibility, and paperwork due to ethics guidelines.
Introducing Step 6
Teaching the Skills:
Identifying and Refining Research Questions
The process of narrowing a scope of interest into a research question to serve as the foundation of a long-term investigation or inquiry.
Essential Questions
Combine knowledge, ideas, and your own perspective into an argument.
How do I connect and analyze the evidence in order to develop an argument and support a conclusion? Are there other conclusions I should consider? How does my scholarly work emerge from my perspective, design choices, or aesthetic rationale? How do I acknowledge and account for my own biases and assumptions? What is the most appropriate way to acknowledge and attribute the work of others that was used to support my argument? How do I ensure the conclusions I present are my own?
Academic Paper:
Discussion, Analysis, and/or Evaluation
Interprets the significance of the results, performance/exhibit/product, or findings; Explores connections to the original research question/project goal.
Conclusions and Future Directions
Articulates the new understanding generated through the research process and limitations of the conclusion or creative work.Discusses the implications to the community of practice.Identifies areas for future research.
Essential Questions
Contextualize arguments and comprehend author's claims.
What strategies will help me comprehend a text? What is the main idea of the argument or artistic work, and what reasoning does the author use to develop it? What biases may the author have that influence his or her perspective? Does this argument acknowledge other perspectives? How can I assess the quality or strength of others' research, products, or artistic works?
Essential Questions
Collaborate, reflect, and communicate your arguemnt in a method suited to your audience.
How can I best appeal to and engage my audience? What is the best medium or genre through which to reach my audience? How might I adapt my written and oral presentations for different audiences and situations? How might my communication choices affect my credibility with my audience? Which revision strategies are most appropriate to developing and refining my project at different stages? How do I provide feedback that is valuable to others? How do I act upon feedback I have received? How can I benefit from reflecting on my own work?
Academic Paper:
Introduction and Literature Review
How is a literature review like a conversation?
Introduces project goal.
Reviews previous work in the field. Synthesizes the various perspectives in the scholarly literature to situate the research question/project goal within a gap in the current field of knowledge.
Introduces research question.
Qualitative Alignment Example: Social Media and Teen Mental Health
Academic Paper:
Bibliography
Provides a complete list of sources cited and consulted in the appropriate disciplinary style.