A Study of the types of research-oriented questions in Guidance School textbooks and Identification of information resources responding them.

Textbooks are considered as one of the most important learning resources for students in many educational systems. Based on this idea, several questions have been included in the end of some of the lessons of some subjects in Guidance school in Iran. In order to find answers to these questions, students have to search for suitable information sources and know how to use them. Such questions are called research-oriented questions (ROQ) in this research. The main aim of this research is to identify the types of research-oriented questions and to identify the relevant information resources (books) which are capable of answering those questions. Findings show that %98 of ROQs were answered by 822 books of which 165 books were selected from the CBC’s bibliographies and 657 books were non CBC’s selected books. On the other hand, %79 of them was answered via reference books. Based on a typological analysis of ROQs, the findings revealed that 58% of them dealt with Know-What, Know-Who, Know-When & Know-Where and aimed at increasing the student's information base. About 35% of them were based on Know-How aiming at increasing the student's knowledge base and the last group, which included about 2% of ROQs were devoted to Know-Why questions and aimed at increasing student's logical reasoning. The ultimate product of this research was a list of books capable of responding to ROQs.