Inquiry and Research: Grade 12 Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 12, students will: prepare for research: define information needs using a variety of strategies explore information using a variety of group activities identify varied ways of organizing information relate prior knowledge to information tasks; access resources: locate a variety of appropriate resources from a variety of sources select information appropriate to needs using a variety of strategies gather information from resources using internal organizers and conventions of texts collaborate with others to share findings and ideas; process information: analyze and evaluate information using a variety of strategies test ideas to adjust research and problem solving strategies sort information using a variety of organizers and formats synthesize findings and formulate conclusions; transfer learning: revise product appropriate to purpose, audience and format present research findings in a variety of forms for a variety of audiences reflect on and evaluate product and process transfer new information skills and knowledge to solve problems and make decisions.

Expectations in Specific Areas
Reasoning	Organizing
By the end of Grade 12, students will: - recognize the importance of taking time to internalize questions and findings at all stages of the process - select archival material and government documents - select journals and abstracts - deconstruct an argument to determine original principles - analyze both inductive and deductive arguments and evaluate the logic of their conclusions - recognize and integrate the learning styles of others in research and problem solving - foresee consequences and implications of personal research	By the end of Grade 12, students will: - identify how resources are classified within different classification systems - visit a variety of physical and virtual libraries and describe their features - use specialized indexes such as newspaper, journal, and trade indexes to prepare for post-secondary employment and education - create précis - create relational databases and output information in a variety of ways - distinguish between MLA and APA bibliographic conventions - use conventions of editing and revising print, media and electronic texts such as proofreader's marks and director's cues
Communicating	Applying
By the end of Grade 12, students will: - use a variety of seminar strategies to explore ideas during research process - conduct an electronic conference to collect ideas from a wide variety of student and expert participants - use précis in peer and teacher conferencing to check progress - extend presentations to a variety of communities for authentic performance	By the end of Grade 12, students will: - identify the strengths and weaknesses in knowledge and experience prior to task - use controlled vocabulary for subject searching - locate archival and government documents - use free text searching of online resources - extend insights and opinions from findings - make judgments and draw conclusions to solve problems - transfer conclusion reached in one context to another context, e.g., from the arts to the sciences.