Purpose Statement Worksheet 1
Below are actual purpose statements from M.Ed. projects. With a partner select a number of these and do the following:- Try to figure out if they are generally quantitative or qualitative studies.
- Do they include the purpose statement elements appropriate to each kind of study?
Qualitative: group, setting, topic
Quantitative: group, characteristics to be compared, intervention - Do they make sense? Can you understand what the author is about to do in the study?
(I copied all of these verbatim. Ignore grammatical and typographic errors except to remind yourself that you won’t let that happen in your paper.) - Try to rewrite the problem statement following our guidelines.
- The purpose of this research project is to find out from the perspective of our parents how our school can provide children access to a broad range of engaging reading material through home, school and community programs.
- The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between student use of literacy centers, student behaviour, and reading achievement for Grade One students.
- The purpose of this study is to determine ninth grade students’ attitudes toward history class.
- Will peer tutoring improve feelings of self-worth and achievement results for students in grade eight mathematics classes?
- Do motivational strategies have an effect on 7th grade physical education students’ one-mile fitness results?
- This research proposes to measure the effect of introducing constructivist-oriented curricula and instructional strategies on student learning in a traditional school setting.
- The primary focus of this study is to determine whether continuing education is a factor affecting teacher morale among faculty at a small middle school in Southern Oregon.
- This research proposes to investigate transition programs for grade six students in XXSD by comparing the characteristics of these programs with the characteristics of effective transition programs as described in the current literature.
- Do parents/guardians of Grade five students in XXXX School and their children in fifth grade have the same perceptions and understandings of action and violence, as witnessed from the same clips of four media presentations?
- Does teaching experience affect morale at this small rural middle school in XXXX?
- Do the fifth grade students think it is important to pass these [state benchmark] assessments and meet the second Benchmark?
- The question guiding this research is: do ROTC freshmen on scholarship have better academic scores than non-ROTC students at the University of Portland and how does the experience at the University affect the attitudes of ROTC students?
- The purpose of this study is to determine if any one [reading] quartile benefits more than another from grouping by ability, according to student performance of the spring District Level Tests.
- This research proposes to investigate the role of kindergarten peer groups in XXXX Schools and their relationship to isolation and job satisfaction.
- I believed that a study of how student teachers proceed with and grow in planning over the duration of a practicum could provide cooperating teachers and teachers educators with valuable insight into this period of learning how to teach.
- The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the QTRIP intervention plan on the oral reading fluency of remediated students in third grade.
- The purpose of this study is to determine if a student’s reading fluency score can be correlated with their comprehension test scores.
- What were the effects of the Read Well program on kindergartners who had Read Well instruction verses kindergartners who did not receive Read Well instructions?
- How do teachers that have looped grade levels with their students feel about the process?
- Will implementing education through movement improve readiness skills in kindergarten children?
- The researcher proposes to determine the relationship between the amount and the type of homework and its effect on academic achievement (raising in-class test scores) in grade 6 English class in an urban middle school.
- The purpose of this study is to analyze how eighth grade math students view themselves as mathematicians.
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the work-related stress experienced by my colleagues that are school teachers.
- The purpose of this study is to determine how adult educators can assist and motivate First Nations adult learners and the implications of prior residential schooling.
- The focus of this study is student writing and how a teacher can develop lessons that will have a positive impact on the quality of student writing.
- …the question must be asked if current school start times are in alignment with our students’ sleep/wake habits.