RESEARCH PROBLEM SOURCE OF PROBLEM

NAME :  LYA PUSPA RINI
CLASS :  TBI/A
NIM  :  932201513RESEARCH PROBLEM
SOURCE OF PROBLEM

1. Experience
The one of sources for beginning researchers  is from their own experience. Teachers have intuitions about new relationship or why certain things in school happen the way they do. Teachers often question the effectiveness of certain clasaroom practice that have become routine but that way be based more on tradition or authority than on scientific research.
2. Theories
Theories are good source of problem for research. A theory may be defined as set of interrelated statements, principles, and propositions that specify the relationships among variables.
3. Related literature
In published research, you will find examples of research problems and the methods used to solve them.

1. You may find a study that needs to be replicated. You can repeat someone else’s study, not exactly, but with some variation. You might use a different age group, different setting, or a different methodology.
2. You may find a question that represents the next logical step in the research on a problem. The outcomes of one piece of research very often lead to new questions. In the concluding sections of their research report.

In conclusion, published research can be a great source of ideas for research. With some critical analysis of the research in your field and a bit of creativity, you should be able to find several potentially researchable problem.
4. Noneducation source
Often, movements that originate outside a profession lead people to new path of research. The women’s movement has led researchers to study gender stereotyping in educational materials, the influence of schools on the learning of sex roles, gender differences in achievement and personality, and so forth.
5. Qualitative research problems
You need to identify an area or a topic about which you have  a real interest. Once researchers have selected the initial focus of inquiry, they need to identify exactly what they want to know about that topic. The focus of inquiry is thus narrowed to the aspect of the phenomenon that will be explored in the research study.

EVALUATING THE PROBLEM

1. The problem should have significance
2. The problem should be one that will lead to ne problems and so to further research.
3. The problem must be researchable.
4. The problem should be suitable for the like  researcher.
5. The problem should be ethically appropriate.

WHAT IS A RESEARCH PROBLEM ?
A research problem is exactly that a problem that someone would like to research.


RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Usually a research problem is initially posed as a question, which serves as the focus of the researher’s investigation. The following examples of possible research questions in education are not sufficiently developed for actual use in a research project but would be suitable during the early stage of formulating a research question.

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. The question is feasible
2. The question is clear
3. The question is significant
4. The question is ethical.

DEFINING TERMS IN RESEARCH

• Three common ways to clarify ambiguous or unclear terms in a researche question involve the use of constitutive (dictionary-type) definitions, definition by example, and operational definitions.
• A constitutive definition uses additional terms to clarify meaning.
• An operational definition describes how examples of a term are to be measured or identified.