文档介绍：Writing up research proposal
开题报告大致包括以下几个方面的内容。
(research title) 。
(research motivation)
(statement Of problem and hypotheses)
(significance of the research)
(1iteraturereview)
(research approach or methodology)
(research limitations)
(research planning)
(references)
(tables and appendix)
Sample:
Higher Education Faculty: Satisfaction with Online Teaching
Purpose of the Study(研究本论题的目的)
The main purpose of this study is to conduct exploratory qualitative research to investigate online faculty members teaching philosophies and what contributes to or inhibits their satisfaction with online teaching.
To meet this purpose, this research will
a) explore participant's teaching beliefs and perceptions of elements that contribute or inhibit to their online teaching job satisfaction;
b) investigate the relationships among the elements that contribute to or inhibit the participant's perception of job satisfaction;
c) provide a structure to better understand elements that contribute to or inhibit online faculty members' job satisfaction.
Research Questions(论文拟解决的问题)
The key questions guiding this inquiry are:
1. What elements contribute to or inhibit satisfaction with online teaching for faculty members?
2. What are the relationships among the elements that contribute to or inhibit online faculty member's satisfaction with online teaching?
The electronic Web-based background questionnaire will collect information about the study participants such as: contact information, discipline/degree program, gender, age, ethnic group, tenure status, teaching experience, computer use, instructional uses of technology, and teaching philosophy.
The interview protocol includes questions, in the first section, about the participant's teaching experience. The second section explores barriers to or facilitators of online teaching, and satisfaction wi