EDUC 850 Research Topic Approval Assignment Instructions Overview Applied research is a method in which the researcher seeks to improve outcomes by offering practical solutions for a variety of proble

Today we're going to talk about how to choose a problem of practice for you to research. When you decide on a topic or when you're thinking about a topic that you want to solve, it needs to be a real problem that actually exists in an educational setting. Once you've come up with your topic, you need to do one of two things. If you have a topic of your own, you can present it to the leadership at the school and ask for their permission to conduct the research. Or if you don't have a topic in mind, you can go to the leadership of the school and asked them if they have a problem that they would like for you to try to solve or a practice that they would like for you to try to improve. Either of those is fine. When you're trying to decide on your topic, you need to think about the scope of it. It cannot be too large to be solved. You're not going to solve drug abuse problem in all the schools in the United States. You're not even going to solve them all for a specific state. You may not even solve them offers specific school. You might have to narrow down drug abuse to just underage drinking. So you need to think about the scope of your problem. This applied research and education is not meant to be massive. Research is meant to be very practical and specific. So when you come up with your topic, it needs to be in the form of a central research question. You have two different formats that you can choose from. The first one is, how can the problem of and you identify the problem, fill in the blank, be solved. Or the second one is, how can the practice or issue you fill in the blank be improved? You choose one of those two. Educational research can be an effective way to help make improvements in practice based on data collected and analyzed. As long as the problem of practice is logical for the specific site chosen and it is not too broad in scope.