Research questions serve a key role in the operationalizing of the research process, and are a reminder of the purpose of the research activity that is being conducted. In this way, research questions are both practical, and serve as a “north star” of the broader purpose of the research activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ideally, research questions should “flow logically and not take the research into different directions” (McCaig & Dahlberg, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Writing Centre at Royal Roads University advises that a research question should “be clear and specific; state the focus of the investigation in the research; and not be answerable with a yes\/no response” (Royal Roads University, n.d.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
References<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n McCaig, C., & Dahlberg, L. (2010). Practical research and evaluation: A start-to-finish guide for practitioners. Practical Research and Evaluation<\/em>, 1-272.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Royal Roads University, n.d., Developing your essay. https:\/\/libguides.royalroads.ca\/developing_essay <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research questions serve a key role in the operationalizing of the research process, and are a reminder of the purpose of the research activity that is being conducted. In this way, research questions are both practical, and serve as a “north star” of the broader purpose of the research activity. Ideally, research questions should “flow … Continue reading What makes a good research question?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0278\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}