Thesis Writing Research Question Guide

THESIS WRITING (QUALITATIVE STUDY)
RESEARCH QUESTION GUIDE & SAMPLE
Research Questions Interview Questions

TITLE: HOMEBOUND: A STUDY ON HOME Interview Guide
ENVIRONMENT AND ITS EFFECTS TO
MODULAR Warm Up Questions
DISTANCE LEARNING
1. As a student in this new normal setting,
Statement of the Problem what are your opinions about modular
distance learning?
1. How do the participants assess their 2. Since you are studying at home, how
home environment within the modular would you describe your home
distance learning platform in terms of: environment?
1.1 Physical arrangement/organization SOP1.1
1.2. Parental involvement 3. How can you describe the physical
1.3. Noise, ventilation, and ambience organization of your home?
1.4 Availability of appropriate learning 4. In your experience, in what way did the
materials/devices physical organization of your home affects
2. What is the effect of the participants' your learning in a modular distance setting?
home learning environment to their ability 5. Share with us the things that you would
to learn in a modular distance learning like to change in the physical organization
platform? of your home.
3. How will the findings of the research be SOP1.2
utilized towards the improvement of the 6. How do your parents support you in your
home learning environment in the modular studies in the new normal setting?
distance learning of the participants? 7. How does parental involvement affect
your learning in a modular distance setting?
Objectives of the Study 8. Why do you think is it essential for
students to have parental support or
General Objective involvement?
SOP1.3
To describe the home environment and its 9. Describe the noise, ventilation, and
effects to the modular distance learning of ambience of your home.
selected students. 10. In what way does it affect you?
11. What would you like to change or add
Specific Objectives to it?
SOP1.4
The following are the specific objectives
that the researchers sought to achieve 12. What are the things that are essential
through this study: for you in this learning platform?
1. To identify the effects of the home 13. How does not having those things affect
environments’ physical organization, you?
parental involvement, noise, ambience, and
ventilation, and availability of learning
materials/devices to the modular distance 14. If you were to have a thing or device
learning of students; that will be helpful in your academic
2. To find out other factors that may also productivity, what would it be and why?
affect them in their home environment
aside from those mentioned in specific SOP2
objective number 1; and
3. To know the way students acknowledge 15. Overall, how does your home
and cope with modular distance learning environment affect your learning in a
despite their home environment. modular distance setting?
16. How important is your home

environment for you? Explain.
17. What is your ideal home environment

and why?
18. Please share with us some of your

experiences on how the home learning
environment affect your ability to learn in a
modular distance learning platform.
Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Interview Questions
1) Write down the larger research questions of the study. Outline the broad areas of
knowledge that are relevant to answering these questions.
2) Develop questions within each of these major areas, shaping them to fit particular
kinds of respondents. The goal here is to tap into their experiences and expertise.
3) Adjust the language of the interview according to the respondent (child, professional,
etc.).
4) Take care to word questions so that respondents are motivated to answer as
completely and honestly as possible.
5) Ask “how” questions rather than “why” questions to get stories of process rather than
acceptable “accounts” of behavior. “How did you come to join this group . . .?”
6) Develop probes that will elicit more detailed and elaborate responses to key questions.
The more detail, the better!
7) Begin the interview with a “warm-up” question—something that the respondent can
answer easily and at some length (though not too long). It doesn’t have to pertain
directly to what you are trying to find out (although it might), but this initial rapport-
building will put you more at ease with one another and thus will make the rest of the
interview flow more smoothly.
8) Think about the logical flow of the interview. What topics should come first? What
follows more or less “naturally”? This may take some adjustment after several
interviews.
9) Difficult or potentially embarrassing questions should be asked toward the end of the
interview, when rapport has been established.
10) The last question should provide some closure for the interview, and leave the
respondent feeling empowered, listened to, or otherwise glad that they talked to you.

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THESIS WRITING (QUALITATIVE STUDY)

RESEARCH QUESTION GUIDE & SAMPLE

Research Questions Interview Questions

16. How important is your home

17. What is your ideal home environment

18. Please share with us some of your

Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Interview Questions

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