{"id":293,"date":"2021-07-04T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/?p=293"},"modified":"2021-07-04T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T20:19:03","slug":"522-unit-1-activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/522-unit-1-activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"522 Unit 1 Activity 3: What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good research questions bear many of the traits of good questions used within the models of project-based, problem-based, and inquiry-based learning. In these learning models, the questions are sometimes referred to as challenging, essential, or driving questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They state the purpose or focus of the project.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quantitative research questions are typically narrow and specific\u00a0 while qualitative research questions may be the broadest question that could be asked in the study (Creswell, J., 2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They cannot be answered by a simple yes or no, prompting the researcher to dig deep.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are clear and specific.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creswell, J. 2009. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Retrieved from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stockholm, Marianne. 2014.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designsociety.org\/publication\/35894\/Problem+Based+Learning+versus+Design+Thinking+in+Team+Based+Project+Work\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Problem Based Learning Versus Design Thinking in Team Based Project Work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engineering and Project Design Education 4&amp;5. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Twente, The Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thesis statements\/Research questions\/Problem statements. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(n.d.). Retrieved from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good research questions bear many of the traits of good questions used within the models of project-based, problem-based, and inquiry-based learning. In these learning models, the questions are sometimes referred to as challenging, essential, or driving questions. They state the purpose or focus of the project. Quantitative research questions are typically narrow and specific\u00a0 while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}