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MYP Personal Project: Research skills

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Demonstrate Excellent Research Skills (7-8)

Research skills

Information literacy skills

Media Literacy Skills

  • Use a wide range of sources and types of sources

  • Selects resources deliberately

  • Collect, record and verify data

  • Make connections between various sources of information

  • Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions

  • Process data and report results

  • Evaluate and select information sources based on their appropriateness

  • Use critical literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications

  • Understand and implement intellectual property rights

  • Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions

  • Identify primary and secondary sources

  • Evaluates a source using the CRAAP test (Currency, Relevance Authority Accuracy Purpose)

  • Uses consistent and proper citations (Harvard)

  • Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital social media and online networks)

  • Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentation

  • Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources

  • Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi) media resources



 

Acknowledgement

Material contained in this LibGuide has been sourced from the OCC (Online Curriculum Centre IBO), MYP Projects Guide 2016 and Yokohama International School Personal Project guide.