Outline the general plan for collecting the data. This may include survey administration procedures, interview or observation procedures. Include an explicit statement covering the field controls to be employed. If appropriate, discuss how you obtained enter. Provide a general outline of the time schedule you expect to follow.
Data Analysis
Specify the procedures you will use, and label them accurately (e.g., ANOVA, MANCOVA, HLM, ethnography, case study, grounded theory). If coding procedures are to be used, describe in reasonable detail. If you triangulated, carefully explain how you went about it. Communicate your precise intentions and reasons for these intentions to the reader. This helps you and the reader evaluate the choices you made and procedures you followed.
Indicate briefly any analytic tools you will have available and expect to use (e.g., Ethnography, NUDIST, AQUAD, SAS, SPSS, SYSTAT).
Provide a well thought-out rationale for your decision to use the design, methodology, and analyses you have selected.
Significance of the Study
Indicate how your research will refine, revise, or extend existing knowledge in the area under investigation. Note that such refinements, revisions, or extensions may have substantive, theoretical, or methodological significance. Think pragmatically (i.e., cash value). Most studies have two potential audiences: practitioners and professional peers. Statements relating the research to both groups are in order. This can be a difficult section to write. Think about implications—how results of the study may affect scholarly research, theory, practice, educational interventions, curricula, counseling, policy. When thinking about the significance of your study, ask yourself the following questions. What will results mean to the theoretical framework that framed the study? What suggestions for subsequent research arise from the findings? What will the results mean to the practicing educator? Will results influence programs, methods, and/or interventions? Will results contribute to the solution of educational problems? Will results influence educational policy decisions? What will be improved or changed as a result of the proposed research? How will results of the study be implemented, and what innovations will come about?
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