Research questions (and hypotheses): Getting started
Since all dissertations aim to answer one or more research questions (and/or hypotheses), understanding how to create research questions that are appropriate for your dissertation is essential.
The purpose of this section of the Laerd Dissertation site is to help you create research questions (and/or hypotheses) that are appopropriate to your research design, and the specific goals of your dissertation.
This article acts as a guide to the articles in this section of the Laerd Dissertation website.
The purpose of this section of the Laerd Dissertation site is to help you create research questions (and/or hypotheses) that are appopropriate to your research design, and the specific goals of your dissertation.
This article acts as a guide to the articles in this section of the Laerd Dissertation website.
Core ARTICLES
Quantitative research questions: What do I have to think about?If your dissertation is attempting to answer one or more quantitative research questions, there are a number of factors you need to think about before getting started. If you're not sure where to start, this article provides the introduction you need.
Types of quantitative research questionThere is more than one type of quantitative research question that you can attempt to answer in a dissertation (i.e. descriptive, comparative and relationship-based research questions). In this article, we describe each of these types of quantitative research question, providing examples.
How to structure quantitative research questionsFor each of the three types of quantitative research question (i.e. descriptive, comparative, and relationship-based questions), we show you how to structure (i.e. write up) the question appropriately to help the reader understand what you are trying to achieve.