{"id":189,"date":"2019-07-12T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/?p=189"},"modified":"2019-07-13T13:28:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T20:28:50","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Focused<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201cA good question focuses on only one issue and doesn\u2019t try to fit in too much <\/em><em>It requires analysis and thinking, and doesn\u2019t have an obvious yes or no answer\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>(Laurier Library, 2017)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201cA good research question should pass the \u201cso what?\u201d test. Getting the answer should contribute usefully to our state of knowledge. The acronym FINER denotes five essential characteristics of a good research question: it should be feasible, interesting, novel, ethical and relevant\u201d <\/em>(Hulley et. al, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>REFERENCES:<\/p>\n<p>Hulley, S. B., Cummings, S. R., &amp; Browner, W. S. (2013). Designing clinical research. Retrieved from https:\/\/ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca<\/p>\n<p>Laurier Library [Producer]. (2017, Dec 20). Developing a Research Question [Video file]. Retrieved from https:\/\/youtu.be\/1oJNO6PYZe4<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/07\/FINER-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/07\/FINER-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/07\/FINER.jpg 638w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focused \u201cA good question focuses on only one issue and doesn\u2019t try to fit in too much It requires analysis and thinking, and doesn\u2019t have an obvious yes or no answer\u201d\u00a0 (Laurier Library, 2017) Interesting \u201cA good research question should pass the \u201cso what?\u201d test. Getting the answer should contribute usefully to our state of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Makes a Good Research Question?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}