Colin T. Gasamis

II Identifying a Research Problem Research Problem  Research problems are the educational issues, controversies, or concerns that guide the need for conducting a study. Literature Review  What is it's Purpose?  Give an Overview of What has already been done  Describe why prior research has lead to the current inquiry What are The 5 Steps?  1. Identify key terms to use in your search for literature.  2. Locate literature about a topic by consulting several types of materials and databases,  3. Critically evaluate and select the literature for your review.  4. Organize the literature you have selected by abstracting or taking notes on the  5. Write a literature review that reports summaries of the literature for inclusion in your Causation  The idea of probable causation is that researchers attempt to establish a likely cause-and-effect relationship between variables, rather than prove the relationship.  Example: Phonological awareness causes reading and also less oral language correlates to poor r