報告者：黃品綺 授課教師：任維廉 教授

 Significance and meaning of a purpose statement  A qualitative purpose statement  A quantitative purpose statement  A mixed methods purpose statement 2

 Establish the direction for the research  Indicate “why you want to do the study and what you intent to accomplish”  Set the objectives, the intent, and the major idea of a proposal or a study 3

 Use words such as “purpose,” “intent,” or “objective”  Focus on a single phenomenon (or concept or idea)  Use action verbs to convey how learning will take place  Use neutral words 4

 Provide a general working definition of the central phenomenon or idea  Include words denoting the strategy of inquiry  Mention the participants in the study  Identify the site for the research 5

 The purpose of this _______ (strategy of inquiry, such as ethnography, case study, or other type) study is (was? will be?) to _______ (understand? describe? develop? discover?) the _______ (central phenomenon being studied) for _______ (the participants) at _______ (research site). At this stage in the research, the _______ (central phenomenon being studied) will be generally defined as _______ (provide a general definition). 6

 Focus on relating or comparing variables or constructs  Independent variables  Dependent variables  Intervening or mediating variables  Control variables and confounding variables 7

 Words to signal the major intent of the study  Identification of the theory, models, or conceptual framework  Identification of the independent and dependent variables  Words that connect the independent and dependent variables 8

 A position or ordering of the variables from left to right  Mention the specific type of strategy of inquiry used in the study  Reference to the participants and mention of the research site  A general definition for each key variable 9

 The purpose of this _______ (experiment? survey?) study is (was? will be?) to test the theory of _______ that _______ (compares? relates?) the _______ (independent variable) to _______ (dependent variable), controlling for _______ (control variables) for _______ (participants) at _______ (the research site).  The independent variable(s) _______ will be generally defined as _______ (provide a general definition). The dependent variable(s) will be generally defined as _______ (provide a general definition), and the control and intervening variable(s), _______, (identify the control and intervening variables) will be statistically controlled in the study. 10

 Begin with signaling words  Indicate the type of mixed methods design  Discuss a rationale for combining both quantitative and qualitative data  Include the characteristics of a good qualitative and quantitative purpose statement  Consider adding information about the specific types of data collection 11

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