Roll no. 49180310 WHAT IS A RESEARCH PROBLEM? This can be anything that anybody finds unsatisfactory or unsettling Research problems involve areas of concern or conditions that might need improvement and difficulties that need to be eliminated RESEARCH QUESTIONS Usually a research problem is initially posed as a question Approaches to answering the questions may involve various methodologies: How can a principal improve faculty morale? (interview research) How do parents feel about the school counselling program? (survey research) Does client-centered therapy produces more satisfaction in clients than traditional therapy?(traditional experimental research) Does behavior modification reduce aggression in autistic children? (single-subject experimental research) Are the descriptions of people in social studies discussions biased? (grounded theory research) What goes on in an elementary schoolclassroom during an average week? (ethnographic research) Do teachers behave differently towards students of different genders? (causal-comparative research) How can we predict which students might have trouble learning certain types of subject matter? (correlational research) WHATEVER THE METHODS THE RESEARCHER MUST COLLECT DATA OF SOME SORT TO ANSWER HIS RESEARCH PROBLEMS TO MAKE THEM RESEARCHABLE Unresearchable questions: examples are those that cannot have empirical or observable value Example: Should philosophy be taught in high school? - there is no way to determine what should or what should not be done The question could be rephrased as: Do people think that philosophy be taught in high school? By doing so the problem becomes empirical andtherefore researchable THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS MUST BE CLEAR
Most people would agree to what the key words in the
question mean Example: How do teachers feel about special classes for the educationally handicapped? Issues raised: what age group is involved? What isthe level of experience of the teachers? Are all teachers in the country involved? Does “feel” mean “opinion,” “emotional reactions,” What is the definition of educationally handicapped? SELECTION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM Any research problem does exist if the following condition are in existence:- 1. There must be an individual or a group or an organization having different types of environment. 2. There must be atlest two course of action is defined by one or more values of the controlled variable. 3. There must be atlest two possible outcomes .Out of these two a researcher wants an objective. DETECT PROBLEMS AND IMPROVE: Is education during the American period better than toda y? How to the students fell about the new HEKASI and MAKABABYAN curriculum? Teachers are more morally upright today under the present DepEd Secretary Students are more assertive today that tenyears ago. A RESEARCHPROBLEM MAY COME FROM SEVERAL SOURCES Selection of a research areas
Reviewing the literature &
theories
Delimiting the research
topic
Evaluating the research
problem
Formulating final statement
of research problem TECHNIQUE INVOLVED IN DEFINING A PROBLEM RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The techniques Involved in defining a
Research Problem is a crucial part of a research study and must in no case be accomplished hurriedly. However, in practice this a frequently overlooked which causes a lot of problems later on. Hence, the research problem should be defined in a systematic manner, giving due weightage to all relating points. The technique for the purpose involves the undertaking of the following steps generally one after the other: •statement of the problem in a general way;
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