The Research Process

Developing a Research Question (EQ)

Developing a research question or essential question. Answer these questions to generate your EQ

What is your general topic?
Who is impacted?
What aspect are you focusing on? A theme? Cause? Effects or implications?
When? Is there a specific timeframe? Future? A specific event?
Where? Country, state, location or a type of place like a school

Example:

Topic: ChatGPT
Who: Students entering college
What: Cheating in school
When: in the future
Where: Students in the US

What is the impact ChatGPT will have on students entering college and the implications of cheating in school will have on their education?

EQ question starters

To what extent Allows for evaluation and considerations of other influencing factors
Assess the role... Allows for analysis of something or someone
How successful... Allows for an evaluation of the success of an approach, method, policy, style
Has the introduction (or cancellation) of... resulted in... Allows for cause/effect style investigation
What is the contribution/influence of... Allows for a focused investigation on the impact of a certain group, individual, material, concept on a broader area
What evidence is there to support... Allows for an investigation into the nature of evidence