Purpose Statement

this week assignment is to create a purpose statement and set of research questions for a proposed study by indicating the intent, goal, and rationale for researching the problem addressed in last week’s assignment. Your purpose statement and associated research questions must be directly aligned with the problem statement.

Begin by locating at least five peer-reviewed scholarly articles that support the problem you wish to address. These articles may be resources previously gathered for your assignments in Week 1 and Week 2, or additional resources you select after receiving feedback from your professor over the past two weeks.

Next, you will create an instructor’s presentation to teach students about how to develop a purpose statement and associated research questions. As with last week, you will do this by way of a PowerPoint presentation.

To create your presentation, follow these steps:

SLIDE 1: Title of presentation

Refer to Weeks 1 and 2 regarding the title you have proposed and decide whether you will make any changes.

SLIDE 2: Create a purpose of the study by indicating the intent, goal, and rationale for researching the problem addressed in last week’s assignment.

The purpose statement should begin with “The purpose of this [insert quantitative or qualitative] study is to…”

In your speaker notes, be sure to clearly explain how the proposed research purpose will inform educational practice.

Make sure to illustrate that the purpose is aligned with the research problem that you developed last week.

SLIDE 3: Draft 2-4 research questions. These questions can be for either qualitative or quantitative methodologies. Please ensure the following:

Qualitative Methodology:

Align the research questions with the purpose statement.

Compose open-ended research questions to reflect the nature of qualitative research, which focuses on exploration and discovery. Avoid yes/no and closed-ended questions.

Quantitative Methodology:

Include proposed hypotheses.

State both null and alternative hypotheses for each research question.

Hypotheses must be stated in testable, potentially negatable form with each variable operationalized.

Note: Each hypothesis represents one distinct testable prediction. Upon testing, each hypothesis will have to be entirely supported or entirely negated.

Align the research questions and hypotheses with the purpose statement.

Ensure the research questions and hypotheses are directly answerable, specific, and testable based on the data collected.

In your speaker notes, explain how and why you created your research questions, and what informed your choices.

SLIDE 4: References

Length: 4 slides with speaker notes, including title and reference pages; speaker notes must be a minimum of 150 words per slide

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources published within the last 5 years; in addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included