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Githa Rezkyna/ DE

Homework III

Questions for “Research Problems”:

Answer the following questions:

1. What is a research problem?

2. What are the criteria of good research problems?

3. What is the best source of formulating research problems?

4. How do you get the inspiration to formulate good research problems?

5. Find 2-3 examples of the formulation of good research problems from reputable scholarly journals
(the research-based articles).

Answers:

1. Research problems are the educational issues, controversies, or concerns that guide the need for
conducting a study.

2. a. The disruption caused by at-risk students in classroom

b. The increase in violence on college campuses

c. The lack of parental involvement in schools for students with challenging behaviors

3.

Aspects of Study About Study of


Study Population People Individuals, organizations,
groups, communities
Subject Area Problem Issues, situations, associations,
needs, population composition,
profiles, etc.
Program Contents, Structure, outcomes,
attributes, satisfactions,
consumers, service providers
Phenomenon Cause and effect relationships,
the study of a phenomenon
itself.

4. Deductions from theory, interdisciplinary perspectives, interviewing practitioners, personal


experience and relevant literature
5. a. It begins by introducing the broad area in which your research is centered, gradually leading the
reader to the more specific issues you are investigating. A good research problem should incorporate
the following features; 1. Compelling Topic, 2. Supports Multiple Perspectives, 3. Researchability
(libguides.usc.edu)

b. FOCUSING THE TOPIC/FORMULATING A RESEARCH QUESTION , after you come up with an idea, you
need to decide on what aspects of that idea you will emphasize. You can focus a topic by geography
(Utah schools), a specific population (elementary school students), or to a particular time period (civil
rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s). You don’t have to focus your topic in all these ways; these are
just some possibilities

c. In social science research the first and most important step of research is formulation of research
problems. It is like the foundation of building which is going to construct, and drafting an outline of a
building is not an easy task. In the same way identifying of various research problems is not an easy task.
If someone wants to solve a problem he/she must have to know about the problem. So in the social
science research, problem formulation is very important for the researcher before conducting the
research. In this article I have tried to focus on several factors through which one can identify the
problems which can occur at the time of research.

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