Design one to two research questions that will guide the study of your preliminary research topic/ problem. Remember these are not questions you will be directly asking research participants, but broader questions that will provide direction for your research.

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Research questions provides a guide for the researcher on what they want to know from the data. Research questions should address a gap in previous research. Research questions also contain relevant concepts and provides insight into overall research design. Qualitative research questions are not an opinion statement or a hypothesis to be tested.
Design one to two research questions that will guide the study of your preliminary research topic/ problem. Remember these are not questions you will be directly asking research participants, but broader questions that will provide direction for your research. Consider the following:
Do not include more than two research questions.
Research questions should be clear, feasible, and socially relevant.
Remember to design questions that reflect the use of a qualitative research methodology.
Avoid questions that could be answered with a “Yes or no”.
Example question phrases: “How does…”, “What factors…”, “What, if any…”, “To what extent…”