QUEST AP Research Process
Use the QUEST framework, to develop, practice, and hone critical and creative thinking skills as you make connections between various issues and your own lives:
Question and Explore
Questioning begins with an initial exploration of complex topics or issues. Perspectives and questions emerge that spark one’s curiosity, leading to an investigation that challenges and expands the boundaries of one's current knowledge.
Good Questions mini-lesson 2023 video
Understand and Analyze Arguments
Understanding various perspectives requires contextualizing arguments and evaluating the authors’ claims and lines of reasoning.
Line of Reasoning (LOR) 2023 video
Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
Evaluating an issue involves considering and evaluating multiple perspectives, both individually and in comparison to one another.
Understanding Lenses & Perspectives 2023 video
Examples of Lenses 2023 video
Synthesize Ideas
Synthesizing others’ ideas with one’s own may lead to new understandings and is the foundation of a well-reasoned argument that conveys one’s perspective.
Synthesis mini-lesson 2023 slides
Synthesis mini-lesson 2023 video
Team, Transform, and Transmit
Teaming allows one to combine personal strengths and talents with those of others to reach a common goal. Transformation and growth occur upon thoughtful reflection. Transmitting requires the adaptation of one’s message based on audience and context.
Introduction to MLA9 slides
Introduction to MLA9 video
Annotated Bibliography mini-lesson 2023 video
Additional relevant Sullivan-made video mini-lessons for McDaniel students:
Accessing Credible News mini-lesson 2022
Destiny Discover Search mini-lesson 2022
Evaluating Web Sources mini-lesson 2023
Gale Power Search mini-lesson 2022
Lexiles AP classes find reading material mini-lesson 2022