Generative AI feedback in higher education
Master’s project · first-year students · mixed methods
ComparativeCorrelationalExploratoryMaster’s project · first-year students · mixed methods
Academic Agent · Research Question Tool
Research Question Generator for Focused, Researchable Questions
Turn a broad research topic into a clear question you can investigate. Give Acade your topic, academic level, scope, and project requirements to explore central questions, supporting questions, and research directions in one academic workspace.
This is a product preview. Question generation takes place in Acade, where every suggestion remains subject to your review.
COMPARATIVEHow does AI-assisted feedback affect revision quality compared with instructor feedback among first-year university students?
CORRELATIONALWhat is the relationship between students’ AI literacy and their verification of AI-generated feedback?
EXPLORATORYHow do first-year students describe the role of AI feedback in their revision process?
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Research Topic vs. Research Question
A topic defines the area. A question defines the investigation.
Users searching for a research topic question generator may still be moving between these two stages. Acade helps preserve the connection without treating them as the same task.
What will you study?
A broad subject or direction such as “AI feedback in higher education.” If you do not yet have one, start with the Research Topic Generator.
Explore research topic ideas →What exactly will you investigate?
A focused and answerable question defining the problem, population, relationship, comparison, or context of the study.
Generate research questions →How to Generate Research Questions
How to generate a research question with Acade
Acade is designed to move beyond generic question wording. The context you provide helps shape questions that can guide literature, evidence, and research design.
Enter
Start with a topic, problem, early idea, assignment, or research direction.
Focus
Add population, context, variables, comparison, timeframe, and constraints.
Choose
Select a descriptive, comparative, correlational, exploratory, explanatory, causal, or evaluative direction.
Compare
Review a central question and connected sub-questions for focus and feasibility.
Continue
Move into literature search, research design, evidence, citations, and writing.
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Good Research Questions
What makes a good research question?
A strong question gives a project clear direction and can be investigated with appropriate evidence and methods within practical constraints.
Focused
Addresses one coherent problem, relationship, comparison, or phenomenon without trying to cover an entire field.
Researchable
Can be investigated using credible primary or secondary evidence rather than answered only by opinion.
Feasible
Fits the available time, data, participants, skills, budget, access rights, and ethical requirements.
Specific
Defines enough of the population, variables, setting, timeframe, or relationship to guide the study.
Relevant
Matters to the discipline, a defined population, professional practice, policy, or an unresolved debate.
Method-aligned
Can be paired with a defensible research design, data source, sampling approach, and analysis plan.
Research Question Types
Generate the type of question your study needs.
The wording should reflect what you want to describe, compare, relate, explain, explore, or evaluate—and remain aligned with an appropriate research method.
Descriptive questions
Describe the characteristics, prevalence, experience, process, or condition of a defined phenomenon.
Comparative questions
Examine differences between populations, contexts, interventions, approaches, or time periods.
Correlational questions
Investigate whether variables are associated without automatically making a causal claim.
Exploratory questions
Develop understanding where experiences, mechanisms, concepts, or perspectives are not yet clear.
Explanatory or causal questions
Examine why an outcome occurs or whether a defined factor changes an outcome under a defensible design.
Evaluative questions
Assess the implementation, effectiveness, outcomes, value, or limitations of a program or intervention.
Research Question Examples
From a broad topic to a focused question.
These examples illustrate question framing. They do not establish novelty or guarantee suitability for a specific project.
Comparative
How does AI-assisted feedback affect revision quality compared with instructor feedback among first-year university students?
Associational
Which message features are associated with vaccine-information trust among young adults using short-form video platforms?
Comparative
How do visual and textual explanations differ in supporting error detection during human review of medical-image classifiers?
Correlational
What is the relationship between recurring meeting load and perceived productivity in distributed software teams?
Explanatory
How does access to repair services influence electronics replacement decisions among urban consumers?
Exploratory
How do platform-specific audience expectations shape professional identity presentation among early-career researchers?
Academic Judgment
A generated question is a starting point—not a final research decision.
Acade helps frame and compare questions. You remain responsible for checking whether a question reflects a meaningful problem, aligns with current evidence and method, and meets ethical and institutional requirements.
Review the literature
Understand existing answers, contested findings, core concepts, and whether a genuine gap may exist.
Align question and method
Check whether the wording matches the design, evidence, sampling, variables, and analysis you can use.
Test feasibility and ethics
Confirm data access, participants, timeframe, resources, permissions, privacy, and required ethical review.
Refine with human guidance
Discuss consequential choices with an instructor, supervisor, coauthor, ethics board, or qualified professional.
Frequently Asked Questions
Research Question Generator FAQ
Clear answers about using Acade to move from a broad topic to a focused, researchable question.
What is a research question generator?
A research question generator helps turn a broad topic or early idea into focused questions that can guide a paper, thesis, dissertation, or research project. Acade uses the context you provide to suggest questions for you to review and refine.
How do you generate a good research question?
Start with a meaningful topic, review relevant literature, narrow the population and context, identify the relationship or problem you want to examine, and check whether the question is focused, researchable, feasible, and relevant.
How can I generate a focused research question?
Add clear boundaries such as the population, location, timeframe, variables, comparison, or study context. Remove concepts that your project cannot investigate and make sure the question can be addressed with available evidence and suitable methods.
What types of research questions can Acade help generate?
Acade can help explore descriptive, comparative, correlational, exploratory, explanatory, causal, and evaluative questions. The appropriate type depends on your research objective, evidence, and method.
Is a research topic the same as a research question?
No. A research topic identifies the broad subject or area you want to study. A research question states the specific issue, relationship, comparison, or phenomenon the study is designed to investigate.
Does this page generate research questions directly?
No. This page previews the Research Question Generator. Generation takes place in the Acade workspace, where you can provide your topic, academic level, scope, question type, and project requirements.
Should I use a generated research question without reviewing it?
No. Check the question against current literature, available evidence, method fit, feasibility, ethics, and institutional requirements. Generated questions are starting points, not final academic decisions.
Academic Agent
Turn your research topic into a question you can investigate.
Connect question development with literature discovery, research design, evidence, citations, and academic writing in one Acade workspace.
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