Course Project Research Questions Instructions Write 1 Quali

Course Project Research Questions Instructionswrite 1 Qualitative And

Write 1 qualitative and 1 quantitative research question. Later in this course, you will use your research questions to write your Final Paper. Apply the following questions to your research questions to evaluate their quality: 

• Do the questions address the topic identified in Module/Week 2? (Topic: The ideas of Behaviorism as it relates to education.)
• Are the questions easily and fully researchable?
• What type of information do I need to answer the research questions? For example, the research question “What impact does a principal’s leadership style have on parent involvement in the PTA?” will obviously require certain types of information:
  • Information on leadership styles
  • Statistics on PTA participation
  • Information about PTA participants and principal relationships
  • Information about national PTA associations, national statistics reported about principal’s leadership styles, etc.
• Is the scope of this information reasonable? (e.g., Can I really research 30 online writing programs developed over a span of 10 years?)
• Given the type and scope of information I need, are my questions too broad or too narrow?
• What sources will have the type of information I need to answer the research questions (journals, books, internet resources, government documents, and/or people)?
• Can I access these sources?
• Given my answers to the above questions, do I have quality research questions that I will actually be able to answer by doing research?

Examples: Use good qualitative wording for your qualitative research question:

• Begin with words such as “how” or “what.”
• Tell the reader what you are attempting to “discover,” “generate,” “explore,” “identify,” or “describe.”
• Ask “what happened?” to help craft your description.
• Ask “what was the meaning to people of what happened?” to understand your results.
• Ask “what happened over time?” to explore the process.

Use good quantitative wording for your quantitative research question. Below are 3 different types of quantitative questions:

• Causal Questions: Does the ________________ (change) in _________________ (independent variable) produce change (increase, decrease, not affect) the _______________ (dependent variable)? For example: “Does reading the Research Question Instructions increase the average research paper grades in a class?”
• Descriptive Questions: How often do ________________ (participants) do ________________ (variable studied) at ________________ (research site)? For example: “How often do college students need to use the bathroom during a test as compared to during a normal class?”
• Predictive Questions: Does ________________ (cause variable) lead to/create _____________ (outcome variable) in ________________ (setting)? For example: “Does the color of a person’s hair lead to higher grades in school?”