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Research questions
Research is about asking questions and finding answers.
- What are your research questions?
- What are the over-arching questions?
- What are the specific questions (i.e., what do you have to do to answer the over-arching question?)
The research questions can be:
- in the form of questions to be answered - e.g.
"What is the relationship between parental occupations and daughters' vocational choice?"
- specific hypotheses to be tested using populations and / or variables
Rudestam and Newton 2001
You may be in a doctoral program where your research question is predetermined. Or, you may be in a faculty where you have to define your own research topic and develop your own questions.
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