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IDENTIFYING A RESEARCH PROBLEM

Definiton:

Research problems are educational problems, controversies or concerns that guide the need to conduct a study.

this serves to help policy makers make decisions, help teachers and administrators at the school level

to solve problems and provide researchers with a deeper understanding of educational problems

It is important to specify a research problem in your study because it sets the stage for the entire study

The research problem must be independent, since it represents the essence of the study.

To investigate a problem you need access to participants

research sites.

As well as the time.

Resources

Skills needed to study the problem.

Qualitative

Researchers must obtain permission to enter a site and involve people in the RRtudy location

Example:

have access to the school

Quantitative

They generally take more time, due to the long process of data collection in the research sites.

The detailed process of analyzing sentences and words.

Require the use of computers, the use of statistical programs or the creation of tables to represent information.

the ability to write detailed passages, synthesize information on general topics.

Use computer programs to enter and analyze words of the participants in the study.

Explaining or predicting relationships between variables is an important feature of quantitative research

statements of problems

1. The subject

2. The research problem

3. A justification of the importance of the problem

4. Deficiencies in the literature in our existing knowledge about the problem

5. Las audiencias que se beneficiarán de un estudio del problema.