Flowchart

RESEARCH PROBLEM

Identify the problem

The topic

Justification of the importance of the problem

Statement of the problem

Deficiencies in what we know

Identify the audience

Access to participants

Research sites

Finding time, resources and having requisite skills

Cualitative or cuantitative research

-Exploring and understanding a phenomenon.

-Views of people.

-Asses a process overtime.

-Generate theories.

-Obtain information about a few people.

-Explaning or predicting relations among variables.

-Mmeasurable variables.

-Asses the variables on an outcome.

- Test theories.

-Apply results a lot of people.

Should the problem be researched?

Yes No

Dont add anything to existing knowledge about educational practices or theories..

Study the problem if your study 'will fill a gap or void in the

existing literature.

Study the problem if your study replicates a pasl study but

examines different parficipants and different research sites.

Study the problem if your study extends past research or

examines the topic more extensively

Study a problem if your study gives more voice to people silenced, not heard, or rejected in society.

Study your problem !1 your study informs practice