{"id":251,"date":"2023-06-30T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/?p=251"},"modified":"2023-06-30T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:25:56","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A good research question:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is a researchable, explicitly stated question connected to either theory or an applied context (Bradley, 2001).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Has a design that links\u00a0the\u00a0goal and\u00a0the\u00a0conceptual\u00a0setting with\u00a0a\u00a0methodology that yields high-quality\u00a0research\u00a0results (Maxwell 1996, as cited by Dahlberg &amp; McCaig, 2010, p 29).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Should flow logically from the purpose and not take the research in different directions (Dahlberg &amp; McCaig, 2010, p 29).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Bradley, D. B. (2001). Developing Research Questions Through Grant Proposal Development. <em>Educational Gerontology<\/em>, <em>27<\/em>(7), 569\u2013581. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/036012701753122901\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/036012701753122901<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dahlberg, L., &amp; McCaig, C. D. (2010). Practical Research and Evaluation\u202f: A Start-to-Finish Guide for Practitioners. SAGE Publications Ltd.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446268346\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446268346<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good research question:&nbsp; Bradley, D. B. (2001). Developing Research Questions Through Grant Proposal Development. Educational Gerontology, 27(7), 569\u2013581. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/036012701753122901 Dahlberg, L., &amp; McCaig, C. D. (2010). Practical Research and Evaluation\u202f: A Start-to-Finish Guide for Practitioners. SAGE Publications Ltd.\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446268346<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}