As I navigate through my final research project for my masters degree, I have been tasked with organizing the sources I discover as I research my question, "What commonalities exist among framework, and best practices in effective inquiry-based (IB) curriculum in secondary science classrooms?" When it comes to deciding between an annotated bibliography, or writing a literature, I find myself working on a literature review. While I like the idea of separating my sources in an annotated bibliography to create a catalogue of sort, I do prefer a literature review for this context.
The literature review allows me to tell the background story involving existing research on my topic. Additionally, it reads more easily, synthesizing existing parts of the "story" when enables me to more easily identify gaps in the research. As my hope is to research something that has not already been looked into, it is these gaps that become important in helping me create a unique research question. I feel that spending time, in this case, on an annotated bibliography may not prove itself to be as helpful to me.
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AuthorI'm Kylie, a science enthusiast working to build my skills as an educator and share what I learn along the way. Archives
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