Discussion: The Significance of Your Proposed Research

The significance of your study is that your research will be original work which provides an answer to a research problem and contributes to solving a social problem.

To Prepare:

• Review the Significance section of the Student Guide to Alignment.
• Review the Significance section of the sample prospectuses.
• Review your problem statement, purpose, research question(s), and Framework sections to assure alignment with the Significance.

By Day 3 of Week 7

• State the Significance of your research.
• Describe how the Significance is aligned with the problem statement, purpose, research question(s) and Theoretical Framework sections.
• Provide one example of a “grandiose positive social change claim” that you would not want to make in your Significance section.