Conceptual framework

Theoretical approach
What theoretical approach will be taken?
What are the theories that are relevant in your area of study?
What theory are you testing and why?
What past research has supported that theory?
What is problematic about the research which supports this theory?
What new context will you apply to the theory?
Conceptual framework
What is your conceptual framework?
Can you produce a diagram of the process of your research?
Can you produce a flowchart of your research, of how knowledge will be developed
and how it will contribute to the field of study?
An example of a (generic) conceptual framework.

If we look at the project in the example above of developing research questions, the
conceptual framework might look something like this:

If we now add the theoretical component-the learning theory, we get something like this: