Process for Completing a Research Project

1. Establish a research problem: In this case, I have given students a question to do

research on.
What career do you want to have and what are the obstacles in achieving
this goal?
How does our society feel about and talk about this job?
Is there gender, racial, or class inequality within the career field
youve chosen?
What kind of education/training is needed and where are some of
the best schools for the training you would need?
2. Define a research question: students will take the question that I have provided and
create their own.
For example: I want to become a dentist and I want to know what itll
take to get certified. I also want to know if women are created equal in
the dentistry field. Some questions to help address this one:
What kind of schools should I look into attending?
How much will it cost for me to complete school and get certified?
What states need dentists?
What states have a higher salary?
When did women start entering dentistry?
How many women own their own practices?
How is society talking about women dentists?
3. Establish relevant data bases:
Students will be guided on how to search for sources to become aware of
what sources and databases are sufficient and credible for their own
research. Students will be aware that databases contain different kinds of
information that may suit their research needs, such as:
.gov for statistics and survey information
.blog/.twitter/.facebook for daily conversations from real people
.jstor/.scholar.google (etc.) for scholarly articles
.cnn/.foxnews/.usnews (etc.) for media perspectives
.edu for educational research/information