Problem statement and objectives

Problem statement and objectives

1. Problem statment

   • Definition
     • General description of the situation
   • Characteristics
     • specific
     • Concise
     • Connected ideas
   • Common errors
     • Focus on more than one problem
     • Assigning a cause to the investigation
     • Offer a solution
   • First chapter of a tesis
   • How to write one
     • Context
       • Where?
       • How?
       • Who?
     • Current diagnosis
       • Are there any current investigations on the problem?
       • Last discoveries
     • Fundamentation
       • Why should this problem be investigated?

2. Objectives

   • Definition
     • Goal goal that is intended to be achieved in a project
   • Function
     • Specify the tasks that must be done during the investigation
   • Must be written with infinitive verbs
     • Acknowledge, measure, Identify,propose, etc
   • Types
     • Casual
       • The causal objective seeks to explain causal relationships in phenomena that have already occurred
     • Correlational
       • Analyzes the relationship between variables involved in the phenomenon
     • Descriptive
       • It answers questions like
         • What is it?
         • How does it evolve?
       • Example
         • Understand the motivation with which pedagogy students start their studies

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