Research question and goals
This is the landing page for topics related to your goals or objectives for your ILD study.
Your research question is the place of departure for making decisions about how to set up your study, including how to obtain and analyze the data. This question together with these choices determines the conclusions you will be able to draw. It is hence a good idea to carefully align your research question with your goals, and specify it as clear and precise as possible. This may take multiple iterations and refinements.
Below we have specified multiple articles that help you generate and refine your research question, as well as specifying your research goals.
Think more about your research question and goals
Various types of research goals that can help you narrow down your own.
- [Description, prediction, and causation]
- [Exploratory or confirmatory]
- [Population-focused, process-focused, or both]
- Analyses per research goal
Grounding your research question in theory provides a solid foundation for answering it in a meaningful way.
- [From theory to research question]
- [Formulating a clear research question]
- Theory formation
- Measurement theory
Refined research questions sharpen the study’s focus, aligns methods with objectives, and increases the clarity and relevance of your findings.
- [Formal theory]
- [Conceptually defining your construct]
- [Intra-individual versus inter-individual variation]