This document outlines 15 criteria for selecting a good research problem: 1) significance to the discipline, 2) originality, 3) feasibility, 4) administrative support, 5) peer support, 6) availability of subjects, 7) researcher's competency, 8) ethical considerations, 9) being solvable, 10) being current, 11) being interesting, 12) being clear and unambiguous, 13) being empirical and verifiable, 14) relevance, and 15) being systematic. It emphasizes that a good research problem contributes new knowledge to a field, can be completed given constraints, and generates useful results.