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Descriptive,Explanatory and Normative Problem Formulation

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Problem Formulation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">A problem formulation is a sought of question or what we are not sure about&period; The conclusions made are actually the results of the stated problem&period; Problem solving is considered to be the innovative and significant way of solving a problem&period; Selection of the research topics is basically the problem which is going to be analyzed&period; These topics are selected by different ways like having some knowledge about practical problems in the field&comma; specific field literature&comma; better result ideas be taken through request for proposals and last way is that the researcher thinks the topic by their own minds&period; For example&semi; there found the appearances of back injuries in the field of health care&period; There are three types of problem formulation&comma; stated as&semi;&lbrack;linkunit&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Descriptive <br &sol;>• Explanatory <br &sol;>• Normative<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Descriptive Problem Formulation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Descriptive problem formulation describes the problem&period; It actually elaborates &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;what” factor in the problem&period; For example&comma; what sorts of problems are faced in the field of health care&quest;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Explanatory Problem Formulation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&lbrack;large&rsqb;Explanatory problem formulation is a type of a problem that explains the problem like evaluating the reasons for such problems or to explore the causes behind such problem&period; It involves the factor &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;why”&period; For example&semi; nurses in the health care centre are facing back injuries because they might be uplifting the heavy equipments&comma; pushing and lifting heavy patients etc&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Normative Problem Formulation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The factor &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;how” is involved in the normative problem formulation because it is how to solve a problem&period; This type includes that how can to overcome a problem&period; For example&semi; by providing male staff as well as advanced technology to remove the problem of back injuries&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Explanation<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">A well formulated problem statement is actually a problem which is almost solved&period; In order to have an attractive report&comma; the problem should be well structured like as problem formulation and which is considered as the representation&period; Representation in fact states the differences and the hierarchical situation of the report&period; For quantitative research&comma; problem formulation can be stated in the form of hypothesis to know about the causes and effects of the problem as well as their relationship among the variables&period; It also involves the deductive an inductive reasoning in order to have qualitative research&period;&&num;160&semi; For formulating the problem&comma; the researcher may conduct qualitative research to know about the actual problem&period; A problem is good and better defined when at least half of their points are evaluated and solved&period; A problem is formulated in order to cover all related facts be covered in minimum statement but it itself be a very broad concept and if the problem is longer and cover more facts then research may be conducted individually and separately&period; It is the most difficult part in the research to formulate the research problem in clear&comma; to the point and appropriate form&period;&&num;160&semi; The problem formulation originates the center of attention and significance related to the problem&comma; provides situations and a framework to state the conclusions and results&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Ingemansen&comma; J&period; &lpar;2007&rpar;&period; Problem Formulation&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;introduction to problem solving”&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Heylighen F&period; &lpar;1988&rpar;&colon; Formulating the Problem of Problem-Formulation&comma; in&colon; Cybernetics and Systems &&num;8217&semi;88&comma; Trappl R&period; &lpar;ed&period;&rpar;&comma; &lpar;Kluwer Academic Publishers&comma; Dordrecht&rpar;&comma; p&period; 949-957&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• www&period;socialresearchmethods&period;com&comma; accessed on April 3&comma; 2012&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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