The 5-As inquiry model

 

After looking into various inquiry models, I felt that Ian Jukes' 5-As model was the most useful for my needs. His model focuses on the different aspects of information processing, which are:

• Asking: questions to be answered
• Accessing: relevant information
• Analyzing: the acquired information
• Applying: connect the information to a task
• Assessing: the end result and the process. 

Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, and university instructor. He is the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development. Over the course of the past ten years, Ian Jukes has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 9,000 presentations. He typically speaks to between 300,000 and 400,000 people a year. Consulting Magazine Online named him one of the top ten educational speakers in America.
-SchoolBriefing.com

Mr. Jukes believes that students now are wired differently than previous generations, but that teachers are being trained to teach as if the students themselves are the same as before. His 5-A model gives both teachers and learners a clear way to understand the steps to process information.