{"id":202,"date":"2017-07-09T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-07-09T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T18:02:55","slug":"activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity 3 &#8211; What makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By completing the readings and watching the videos in Unit 1, there are many different aspects of what makes a good research question. Qualitative and Quantitative research methods combined to make a Mixed Method Research Question seems to be the best way to provide a holistic approach to research.<\/p>\n<p>However, my interpretation of what makes a good research question is much simpler.<\/p>\n<p>I believe a good research question needs to have the following two components.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A research question should be clear and specific and should not be answerable by a yes or no response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will allow a more broad initial research question and will allow the researcher to unpack specific details throughout the research paper by using specific subtopics.<\/p>\n<p>Although, it&#8217;s easier said than done. I think the initial question is the key to the flow of the research paper as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By completing the readings and watching the videos in Unit 1, there are many different aspects of what makes a good research question. Qualitative and Quantitative research methods combined to make a Mixed Method Research Question seems to be the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522","tag-research-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}