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IDENTIFYING THE INQUIRY
AND STATING THE PROBLEM
Research Question
• Can be derived from a wide variety of contents.
• Can be prompted by your own personal interest or
experience.
• Can also be prompted by a theory that you are
very much interested.
Marx’s Possible Sources of Research Questions
• Intellectual Puzzles and Contradictions
• The existing literature
• REPLICATION
• Structures and Function
• Opposition
• A social problem
• ‘Gaps between official versions of reality and the facts on the
ground’
• The counter-intuitive
• New methods and theories
• ‘New Social and technical developments and social trends.
• Personal Experience
• Sponsors and teachers.
CRITERIA
• They should be clear, in the sense of being
intelligible.
• They should be researchable
• They should have some connection(s) with
established theory and research.
• Your research questions should be linked to each
other.
• They should at the very least hold out the prospect
of being able to make an original contribution
• The research questions should be neither too broad
nor too narrow.
Scope and
Delimitation &
Benefits and Beneficiaries
 Problem Statement
Write An opening sentence that entices the
reader and stimulates his or her interest to
read about your research problem.
 Objectives of the Research
Indicate what the research will do, for instance,
discover (grounded theory), explain or seek to
understand (ethnography), explore a process
(case study) and describe the experiences
(phenomenology).
 Scope and Delimitation of research
Indicate the boundaries, exceptions,
reservations and qualifications in your study.
Sometimes referred to as
“Delimitations and Limitations”
Delimitations – used to address how the study
will be narrowed in scope.
Limitations – Used to identify potential
weaknesses of the study.
 Significance of Research Mention
and elaborate on the central focus or
phenomenon being explored or understood in
the study.
 Target Audience
Your target audience is linked to the significance
of your research.
Who would be interested in or who would find
your study a worthwhile investigation.
• True or False
1. Research question come from any of several
sources, namely, personal interest and
experiences.
2. The research question should be either too
broad or too narrow.
3. Objectives of the Research. Sometimes this
section is referred to as Delimitations and
Limitations
4. Scope and Delimitation or research indicate
the boundaries, exceptions, reservation and
qualification in your study.
5. Objectives of the research, indicate what will
the research will do, for instance, discover,
explain or seek.
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STEM
STUDENTS’ EXTENT OF EXPOSURE
AND UTILIZATION ON SOCIAL
NETWORKING APPLICATIONS: ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
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identifyingtheinquiry.pptx

  • 1. IDENTIFYING THE INQUIRY AND STATING THE PROBLEM
  • 2. Research Question • Can be derived from a wide variety of contents. • Can be prompted by your own personal interest or experience. • Can also be prompted by a theory that you are very much interested.
  • 3. Marx’s Possible Sources of Research Questions • Intellectual Puzzles and Contradictions • The existing literature • REPLICATION • Structures and Function • Opposition • A social problem • ‘Gaps between official versions of reality and the facts on the ground’ • The counter-intuitive • New methods and theories • ‘New Social and technical developments and social trends. • Personal Experience • Sponsors and teachers.
  • 4. CRITERIA • They should be clear, in the sense of being intelligible. • They should be researchable • They should have some connection(s) with established theory and research. • Your research questions should be linked to each other. • They should at the very least hold out the prospect of being able to make an original contribution • The research questions should be neither too broad nor too narrow.
  • 6.  Problem Statement Write An opening sentence that entices the reader and stimulates his or her interest to read about your research problem.
  • 7.  Objectives of the Research Indicate what the research will do, for instance, discover (grounded theory), explain or seek to understand (ethnography), explore a process (case study) and describe the experiences (phenomenology).
  • 8.  Scope and Delimitation of research Indicate the boundaries, exceptions, reservations and qualifications in your study.
  • 9. Sometimes referred to as “Delimitations and Limitations” Delimitations – used to address how the study will be narrowed in scope. Limitations – Used to identify potential weaknesses of the study.
  • 10.  Significance of Research Mention and elaborate on the central focus or phenomenon being explored or understood in the study.
  • 11.  Target Audience Your target audience is linked to the significance of your research. Who would be interested in or who would find your study a worthwhile investigation.
  • 12. • True or False 1. Research question come from any of several sources, namely, personal interest and experiences. 2. The research question should be either too broad or too narrow. 3. Objectives of the Research. Sometimes this section is referred to as Delimitations and Limitations
  • 13. 4. Scope and Delimitation or research indicate the boundaries, exceptions, reservation and qualification in your study. 5. Objectives of the research, indicate what will the research will do, for instance, discover, explain or seek.
  • 14. SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STEM STUDENTS’ EXTENT OF EXPOSURE AND UTILIZATION ON SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE