{"id":196,"date":"2019-07-09T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:01:07","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn qualitative research, the intent is to explore the complex set of factors surrounding the central phenomenon and present the varied perspectives or meanings that participants hold.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask one or two central questions followed by no more than five to seven sub-questions.<\/li>\n<li>Relate the central question to the specific qualitative strategy of inquiry.<\/li>\n<li>Begin the research questions with the words what or how to convey an open and emerging design.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on a single phenomenon or concept.<\/li>\n<li>Use exploratory verbs that convey the language of emerging design.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These verbs tell the reader that the study will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discover (e.g., grounded theory)<\/li>\n<li>Seek to understand (e.g., ethnography)<\/li>\n<li>Explore a process (e.g., case study)<\/li>\n<li>Describe the experiences (e.g., phenomenology)<\/li>\n<li>Report the stories (e.g., narrative research)\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Cresswell, J., (2009), p. 129-130)<\/p>\n<p>Creswell, J. (2009). Chapter seven:\u00a0 Research questions &amp; hypotheses, Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (p. 129-144). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.13140\/RG.2.2.10302.48963<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn qualitative research, the intent is to explore the complex set of factors surrounding the central phenomenon and present the varied perspectives or meanings that participants hold. Ask one or two central questions followed by no more than five to&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}