4. Research and Reasoning Research and Reasoning skills are pertinent for success in a postsecondary and workforce setting. Students need to acquire skills throughout their schooling. This means students need to be able to distinguish their own ideas from information created or discovered by others, understand the importance of creating authentic works, and correctly cite sources to give credit to the author of the original work. Prepared Graduate Competencies The preschool through grade 12 concepts and skills that all students who complete the Colorado education system must master to ensure their success in a postsecondary and workforce setting. Prepared Graduate Competencies in the Research and Reasoning standard: Discriminate and justify a position traditional lines of rhetorical argument and reasoning Articulate the position of self and others using experiential and material logic Gather information from a variety of sources; analyze and evaluate the quality and relevance of the source; and use it to answer complex questions Use primary, secondary, and tertiary written sources to generate and answer research questions Evaluate explicit and implicit viewpoints, values, attitudes, and assumptions concealed in speech, writing, and illustration Demonstrate the use of a range of strategies, research techniques, and persistence when engaging with difficult texts or examining complex problems or issues Exercise ethical conduct when writing, researching, and documenting sources Content Area: Reading, Writing, and Communicating Standard: 4. Research and Reasoning
4. Research and Reasoning Research and Reasoning skills are pertinent for success in a postsecondary and workforce setting. Students need to acquire skills throughout their schooling. This means students need to be able to distinguish their own ideas from information created or discovered by others, understand the importance of creating authentic works, and correctly cite sources to give credit to the author of the original work. Prepared Graduate Competencies The preschool through grade 12 concepts and skills that all students who complete the Colorado education system must master to ensure their success in a postsecondary and workforce setting. Prepared Graduate Competencies in the Research and Reasoning standard: Discriminate and justify a position traditional lines of rhetorical argument and reasoning Articulate the position of self and others using experiential and material logic Gather information from a variety of sources; analyze and evaluate the quality and relevance of the source; and use it to answer complex questions Use primary, secondary, and tertiary written sources to generate and answer research questions Evaluate explicit and implicit viewpoints, values, attitudes, and assumptions concealed in speech, writing, and illustration Demonstrate the use of a range of strategies, research techniques, and persistence when engaging with difficult texts or examining complex problems or issues Exercise ethical conduct when writing, researching, and documenting sources Content Area: Reading, Writing, and Communicating Standard: 4. Research and Reasoning
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