Chapter 6: The Purpose Statement

Suppose you and your classmates have formed a research team. Select a topic that you would like to study. Examples of topics include adolescent smoking, recovery from a natural disaster, or student retention in college. Note how you might address each of the following elements of the purpose statement for a proposed study about your selected topic.

If the study is qualitative or mixed methods Qualitative strategy of inquiry Case study Action verb Central phenomenon Participants Research site Working definition of the central phenomenon If the study is quantitative or mixed methods Quantitative strategy of inquiry Theory being tested Independent variable(s) Dependent variable(s) Control variable(s) If the study is mixed methods Mixed methods design Reasons for combining bothInstructor Resource Creswell, Research Design 59 SAGE Publishing, 2018 types of data Type of quantitative data collection Type of qualitative data collection Using the scripts from the textbook, write a purpose statement for your study: %