Crafting Effective Research Questions

Crafting Effective Research Questions

Assessment

Interactive Video

Created by

Emma Peterson

English

9th Grade

Hard

The video tutorial by Jessica from Scribbr outlines five steps to develop a strong research question. It emphasizes the importance of a good research question as a guiding tool for research papers. The steps include choosing a broad topic, conducting preliminary reading, narrowing down to a specific niche, identifying a research problem, and writing the research question. A checklist is provided to ensure the research question is focused, researchable, feasible, specific, complex, and relevant. The video concludes with additional resources for writing literature reviews and methodology sections.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the first step in developing a strong research question?

Conducting a detailed literature review

Writing the research question

Choosing a broad topic of interest

Identifying a specific niche

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why is it important to do preliminary reading on your topic?

To narrow down the research scope

To finalize the research question immediately

To identify all potential research problems

To gather sources for the bibliography

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the purpose of narrowing down to a specific niche in research?

To ensure the research is feasible

To increase the scope of the research

To avoid answering the research question

To make the research more complex

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of research question does the video example illustrate?

Descriptive research

Experimental research

Comparative research

Correlational research

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is a characteristic of a good research question?

It is focused and researchable

It is broad and general

It requires no empirical data

It can be answered with a simple yes or no