Research Aim Generator for Students

How to write an aim and hypothesis? With this research aim generator, you'll easily come up with a well-formulated scientific aim for your project.

Choose your study type: Qualitative

Choose a proper verb

Who or what is your research group 1? *

Identify your research group clearly.

What is the object of your study? *

Start with a noun or gerund.

What is impacted by the object of your study? *

State your relevant variable.

Where the study is held?

Start with a proper preposition (at, in, etc.).

When the study is held?

Start with a proper preposition (at, in, on, during, etc.).

Who or what is compared with research group 1? *

State a research group 2 with its relevant variable.

💡 How to Use the Tool?
🎓 What Is a Research Aim?
📝 Writing an Aim and Hypothesis
📌 FAQ
🔗 References

💡 Research Aim Generator: How to Use?

Formulating a research aim is a vital starting stage in any research endeavor. That’s where our research aim generator can come in handy.

You only need to take a couple of steps to get a well-formulated, clear aim and progress through your studies:

Indicate the research type you need to complete.
Specify an action verb that best characterizes your intended outcome.
Determine your study population and object:
- E.g., if you study diabetes in children, your population will be children;
- Your object will be diabetes.
State the object’s assumed effect on the population.
Stipulate the time and place of your research.
Add a control group if you have any in your study (the aim will be formulated like “group 1 compared to group 2…).

Once this data is inserted into the online generator, press “Generate” and get the results immediately.

🎓 What Is a Research Aim?

A research aim, or objective, is a formulated purpose of your study. It explains why you’re interested in this subject and what you want to learn about it. Besides, the research aim usually summarizes your chosen approach to complete the study and answer the research question.

For example:

If your subject of interest is student burnout, you may formulate a research aim as follows:

“To examine the effect of student burnout on student achievement and well-being.”

Scientific Aim Vs. Objective

💡 Aim	🎯 Objective
Formulates a general research intent	Specifies goals and subtasks you plan to complete to achieve the stated aim
Indicates the final anticipated result	Clarifies how the final result will be achieved
Is broad in scope	Is more specific and concrete, with actionable steps and aspects of focus
Gives space for objective formulation	Can be combined to achieve a broader goal/aim

Thus, by examining the research aim we’ve formulated in the previous section, we can generate a set of specific, actionable objective examples for it.

You can do the same using our scientific aim generator.

To measure the level of burnout at the beginning of the semester and by its end.
To identify the perceived causes of burnout via student questionnaires.
To evaluate the perceived severity of each cause’s effect on the students’ overall well-being.

Why Are Research Aims & Objectives Important?

It’s necessary to take research aims and objectives seriously, as they shape your project and give it a narrower focus that a reader can follow.

The key benefits of formulating well-thought-out aims and objectives are:

🔎 Project’s simple scoping	Once you are approaching general subjects in your study, it may be pretty hard to pick a specific aspect that can give your research depth and make it manageable. For instance, you may endlessly examine the impact of stress on student achievement or focus on a well-scoped aspect – student perceptions of stress causes and the impact of stress on their academic grades.
⚙️ Input into research design	It’s much easier to formulate strong and consistent methodologies if you have a well-set aim and objectives. By using these goals, you can find approaches to achieve them in the best possible way.
❗ Research significance	Once you know what you plan to research, it’s much easier to show why your research matters and how it can address the existing study gaps in your academic discipline.

📝 How to Write an Aim and Hypothesis with Examples

When it comes to research aim formulation, many students also face a challenge with further steps.

They keep asking:

How to generate a hypothesis based on the aim and goals I have?

Indeed, hypothesis formulation takes time to master, but we can help you with some tips and examples.

The main point you should memorize is that a hypothesis is needed only for quantitative studies. Qualitative research doesn’t require this part.
Second, please remember that you require a pair of hypotheses for a study – null and alternative. This way, you anticipate both outcomes of your study, a validated or non-validated relationship between variables.

Let’s illustrate this step with an example. Our research aim was to examine the impact of student burnout on achievement and well-being. This way, we have one independent variable – student burnout – and two dependent variables – student achievement and well-being. Using this data, we can formulate a pair of hypotheses for every dependent variable (it’s better to study them separately).

🆗 Alternative hypothesis	⭕ Null hypothesis
1. Student burnout has a statistically significant effect on academic achievement.	1. Student burnout has NO statistically significant effect on academic achievement.
2. There is a statistically significant effect of student burnout on well-being.	2. There is NO statistically significant effect of student burnout on well-being.

This way, you have a hypothesis for any outcome, whether you identify a pronounced effect of burnout on the students’ two parameters – academic scores and well-being – or not.

📌 Research Aim Generator FAQ

📌 What is a research aim?

A research aim is the study’s purpose you formulate. It helps identify your anticipated outcomes and intentions for the study.

📌 What is the aim of qualitative research?

As a rule, qualitative studies don’t test any assumptions or hypotheses. They pose open-ended research questions and pursue exploratory goals, like identifying the causes of specific phenomena or people’s beliefs, perceptions, and experiences related to various subjects.

📌 What is the aim of quantitative research?

Quantitative studies follow a positivist paradigm, so they are performed to test assumptions about relationships between variables. Thus, quantitative studies aim to measure certain variables, establish causal relationships between them, or identify existing patterns and trends in the data.

📌 How do you write a research aim?

To compose a well-designed research aim, you need to focus on the intended study outcome. What are you interested in? What parameter of your subject will you measure? What will your findings mean to you? All these questions give valuable pointers for clarifying the aim of your study.

Updated: Apr 5th, 2024

🔗 References