Chapter 4 – Reviewing and revising your purpose statement. In this chapter students will be able to: Compare your purpose statement with several criteria, write a clear purpose statement and appropriate research questions, make a case for your purpose statement and research questions.
Trang 1Planning an Applied Research
Project
Chapter 4 – Reviewing and Revising your
Purpose Statement
Trang 2» Compare your purpose statement with several criteria
» Write a clear purpose statement and appropriate research questions
» Make a case for your purpose statement and
research questions
Trang 3» Important
» Interesting
» Intriguing
» Investigable
» Impactful
» Literature review
» Partner test
» Public speaking test
» Purpose statement
» Research questions
Trang 4Reasons for Revising Purpose Statements
» New information about what has been studies
» New insight about research methods used
» New ideas about the topic
» Shit in focus and interest
» Challenge of developing a coherent design
» Chance to test something important
» Lack of approval for current purpose
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» Purpose Statement Format
˃ “My purpose is to … (what you want to learn – the questions)
˃ “The reasons it is important include (why it is significant? what is the context for it? why should people care? what gap does it fill?)
˃ Therefore, I will … (what you will do to answer your questions and accomplish your goal? what will be your research design?)
Trang 6Supporting Dimensions
» Focus on the following four central elements:
˃ What is the goal?
˃ What parts are most important to this research?
˃ Why is it important?
˃ How will I pursue?
Trang 7Revising
» Test of Purpose Statements
˃ Spousal or partner or friend test
˃ Thanksgiving test
˃ Public speaking test
˃ Then reflect on what you have learned and what changes you might want to make
Trang 8Revising (cont’d)
» Research Questions
˃ Accompany purpose statements
˃ Clarify and specify purpose statements
˃ Trigger and expand your thinking
˃ Improve you thinking about research design options
˃ Promote others to help you
˃ Help you throughout the reading and planning
˃ Guide the research proposal
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» When Writing Research Questions
˃ Think generally
˃ Write them so they beg to be answered
˃ Focus them broadly in the beginning
˃ Make them real questions you want to answer or investigate
˃ Focus them at an intermediate level
˃ Develop more questions now – you can refine them and consolidate them later
Trang 10Criteria for a Good Purpose Statements
I Important
I Interesting
I Intriguing
I Investigable
I Impactful
Trang 11Research Question Example 1
» Purpose – to examine the relationship between the amount of
money spent by a school's athletic department on academic
support and the graduation rates of college football athletes
» Research Questions –
˃ How does an increase in money spent effect graduation rates?
˃ How exactly is the money being spent? Tutors? Computer labs? Incentive programs?
˃ How does the treatment differ for scholarship players and non scholarship players? What is the difference in their graduation rates? What is the correlation between winning/losing and
graduation rates?
˃ How do outside factors influence the results? School's
academic reputation? Priorities of players? Academic
background of players?
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» Purpose – to analyze the factors that influence traveler’s preference to independently plan their trips as an alternative
to utilizing packaged group tours
» Research Questions –
˃ What are the most influential reasons for independently planning trips (i.e. cost, convenience, lack of available options that meet customer needs)?
˃ What are the demographics and psychographics of
travelers who prefer to plan their own trips?
˃ What are the demographics and psychographics of
travelers who prefer packaged tours?
˃ What are the most common sources of information that travelers utilize in making their independent travel plans (i.e. internet, travel books, word of mouth, media)?
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» Purpose – to examine the process by which cobranding occurs between hotels and restaurants and evaluate the overall value of brand alliances with respect to each operation as separate entities
» Research Questions –
˃ To what extent is cobranding among hotels and restaurants a mutually beneficial relationship?
˃ What factors need to be considered when entering into a brand alliance?
˃ What factors affect customer’s choice of one hotel over
another? How does restaurant brand influence that decision?
˃ When is it more profitable for hotels to outsource restaurant services rather than handle the details of these operations
directly?
˃ How does that situation differ for other cobranded operations?
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» Purpose – to analyze the effect that a mission
statement has on employee’s performance in a hotel, in what ways does it change their behavior
» Research Questions –
˃ To what extent do hotel employees consider the
hotel’s mission statement an important or not so
important part of their work life?
˃ What percentage of employees follow the ideas
described in a mission statement?
˃ To what extent does employees’ work behavior
change as a result of their agreement and
acceptance of a hotel’s mission statement?
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» Purpose statement
» Research questions
» Literature review
» Research design
» Research method
» Data analysis plan
» Findings
» Applications
» Limitations
» Opportunities
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» One thing that I discovered in this class session is
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