Document Type
Book Chapter
Recommended Citation
Baril, K., Post, J., & Spieth, B. (2022). No Such Thing as a Bad Question: Using Rubrics to Help Students Learn from and Strengthen Failed Research Questions. In Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers (pp. 105–122). Council on Undergraduate Research.
Abstract
This chapter uses findings from a mixed-methods study of undergraduates’ research experiences in a developmental writing course at a small, private university to suggest that writing bad research questions is a necessary part of the research process and that students can learn valuable lessons from the struggle to pose effective questions if given the necessary support. It offers a set of rubrics that can be used to evaluate the debatability, researchability, and feasibility of students’ research questions to help students turn failed research questions into successful ones.
Publication Date
2022
DOI
doi: 10.18833/cf/18