Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

Read Chapter 7 of Creswell and Creswell (2023): Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches.

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Study Guiding Research Questions(Word document) from the DBA Student Guides on how to draft guiding research questions.

Pick a problem to provide as the basis of the guiding research questions you will develop.

For the purposes of this exercise, it doesn’t matter which problem you select, as long as you are reasonably familiar with its details.

If you already have an identified problem for your ADP, use that problem as the basis of your guiding research questions.

Develop a set of four guiding research questions based on your selected problem. Use the following four categories for your questions, as described in the background information section above:

One question regarding a general knowledge gap – Something we would need to know in order to generate possible solutions to the problem.

One best practices question.

One benchmarking question.

One methodology question.

Write a short paper, 250-500 words in length, with your guiding research questions:

First, briefly explain the problem you are focusing on for this assignment.

Then, list your guiding research questions.

Your paper should be properly formatted per APA guidelines. Utilize the guidance and concepts from your reading assignments above. Cite your sources and provide a correctly formatted reference list.

Do not feel limited by the reading assignments above in your analysis. Feel free to branch out to find additional sources that may aid with your analysis or support your inferences. In other words, don’t hesitate to conduct a little research!

Submit your paper by the end of the workshop.