The document outlines a research proposal framework by Dr. R. Pushpa Namdeo, detailing the essential components such as research questions, methodology, justification, and significance. It emphasizes the importance of clearly defined research questions, appropriate methodology, and the potential contributions of the research to existing knowledge or practices. The proposal should also consider the specific benefits to learners and the broader educational context.

1. RESEARCH PROPOSAL
DR. R.PUSHPA NAMDEO
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
MGAHV,Wardha

2. RESEARCH PROPOSAL
It is the systematic plan, which brings to focus
the preliminary planning that will be needed
to accomplish the purpose of the proposed
study.
It is a kind of blue print.

3. RESEARCH PROPOSAL
The preparation of research proposal is a prerequisite in
the research process.
It serves as the basis for determination of the feasibility of
the research.
It provides a systematic plan of a procedure for the
researcher to follow.
It also gives the research supervisor a basis for guiding the
researcher.

4. COMPONENTS OF RESEARCH PROPOSAL
A. Research Questions: What is your research question?
B. Purpose: Why are you asking this question? What do you hope to
accomplish through the answer?
C. Methodology: How are you going to look for an answer to the question?
D. Justification: How would you justify your answer and conclusion emerging
from it? How would you rationally persuade an open minded
skeptical/unconvinced community of peers to accept your answer and the
conclusion?
E. Significance: How valuable or significant do you think your conclusion
would be to the existing body of knowledge or to our practices or to
humanity in general?
F. Funding: What funding do you need to pursue the research outlined
above? why?

5. IDENTIFYING AND FORMULATING RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
What is a research question?
A research question ought to provide a clear and
precise formulation of
✓What we currently do not know and wish to find out
through the proposed research
✓In the context of what we already know
OR
A gap in our knowledge

6. We should restrict ourselves to single research question,
as the number of questions increase, so does the danger
of lack of coherence focus.
If we have two or more research questions, it should be
formulated as subsidiaries of an overarching question at
a higher level to avoid our questions to appear as
random list of items not tightly connected or adequately
integrated.
It is important in research to distinguish between
empirical and conceptual questions.

7. LITERATURE REVIEW
PLACING THE RESEARCH QUESTION IN THE CONTEXT OF EXISTING
KNOWLEDGE
A research question is an expression of what we don’t know
against the backdrop of what we do know.
This means when we pose a research question, we should also
specify the knowledge that already exist in the literature.
This is the function of what is called literature review.
Locating the place for the proposed research in the existing body of
knowledge is crucial in research proposal.
We-know-this-but-we-don’t-know that should be clearly spelt out.

8. HYPOTHESIS
Questions that the research is designed to answer are usually
framed as hypotheses to be tested on the basis of evidence.
This step establishes the problem and logic underlying the
research study. It gives direction to the data gathering
procedure.
It is in the light of the hypotheses that the relevance of data to
be collected is judged.
The formulation of research hypotheses is typically determined
by the implication of the related literature and deductive logic
of the problem under investigation.

9. OBJECTIVES: THE PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH
Research
➢Applied Research- usefulness driven research
➢Pure Research- Curiosity driven research
Research in education by its very nature is applied
research.
Proposal for pure research don’t need to address
questions: what are the benefits of the outcome of
the research? Or who are its beneficiaries? But in
applied research both these questions ae important.

10. In education in general, the beneficiaries are the learners.
The research proposal in educational research needs to set forth
✓Which particular group will be benefitted by the research.
✓How the outcomes of the proposed research would benefit the learners.
✓What exactly the benefits will be.
✓Would it contribute to the quality of learning, expediency or
competence of the learner in the learning process
✓Would it increase access to educational facilities.
✓Will it make the learning opportunities equitable. etc.
It would help to develop a mental network of the core problems of
education and see that the research can make a contribution to one or
more of these areas.

11. METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
It involves the following points:
Appropriateness: The methodology chosen should be
appropriate to the research question.
Rigour: The methodology chosen and the plans for its
execution, must be such that the research will have a
sufficient rigour i.e. minimize potential errors, inaccuracies
and flaws and increase the likelihood of truth and
accuracy.
Feasibility: The proposed methodology must be feasible to
implement within the context in which the research will be
conducted.

12. Example: Investigating the questions like-
What s high quality education?
It calls for the methodology of conceptual inquiry.
Is the education offered by government school of Maharashtra
of high quality?
It calls for the methodology of scientific inquiry.
Investigating a correlational hypothesis may not need
experimental strategies.
Investigating a causal hypothesis calls for experimentation.

13. MODES OF JUSTIFYING POTENTIAL CONCLUSIONS
Research needs to begin with research question and lead to
conclusion.
The process of defending a claim or a conclusion is called
justification in the academic world.
Justification has the following structure:
➢an assertion or conclusion. to be defended
➢the grounds put forward to support the assertion or inferences
➢the background assumptions
➢the reasoning from the background assumptions to the
assertation/conclusion.

14. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH
In research proposal it is not enough to present a clearly defined
and focused research question, outline a rigorous methodology to
pursue it , provide sufficient indications of having thought carefully
through potential conclusions and ways of justifying them and
consider potential objections.
It is equally important that the proposed research be worthwhile
that its outcomes promise to make a valuable contribution either to
the body of existing knowledge pool or to some aspect of human
life.
The significance of research questions or a potential conclusion is
measured in terms of its potential consequences

15. RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Title of the research proposal
Background of the Problem
Statement of the problem
Review of related literature
Research Question
Research Objectives
Research Hypotheses
Rationale of the hypotheses
Operational definition

16. Significance of the study
Delimitations of the study
Research methodology
Population and sample
Tools of data collection
Potential outcome
Proposed outline of the report
Bibliography
Time schedule
Budgetting

17. THANKS