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    General Outline of the Quantitative

    Dissertation
     Chapter 1: Introduction
     Chapter 2: Review of the Literature
     Chapter 3: Methodology
     Chapter 4: Results
     Chapter 5: Summary, discussion, and
    Recommendations
    Chapter 1: Introduction

     Background
     statement of the Problem (Rationale)
     Purpose of the study
     Conceptual/Theoretical Framework
     Research Questions/Hypothesis
     Significance of the study
     Limitation and Delimitation
     Definition of terms
     Organization of the study
    Chapter 1: Introduction

     Background
     Contextualizing the dissertation topic
     Brief literature review
     Setting the stage
     What is it that we know with respect to the topic
    Chapter 1: Introduction

     Statement of Problem(Rationale)
     Making a case for the topic
     Compelling reasons for the worthiness of the
    research
     Extensions of understanding
     Methodological advancement
     Current issues
     Evaluation of specific practice or policy at a
    given site
     Exploratory research
    Chapter 1: Introduction

     Purpose of the study


     Succinct statement of objectives
     Conceptual /theoretical framework
     Relationships among major variables
     Research Questions/Hypotheses
     3-5 ‘burning’ questions
     Explicit statements of hypotheses (not always
    necessary).
    Chapter 1: Introduction

     Significance
     The intended contributions of the study
     Limitation and delimitation
     Limitation – researcher has little or no control
    over
     Delimitation – self imposed limitation or boundary
     Definitions
     Conceptual definitions of major terms
    Chapter 2: Review of the Literature

     Not just a summary; a critical analyses of


    relevant literature.
     A synthesis of the literature
     May be organized according to: major
    variables, meth0dology, chronology
     Relevance; depth; current
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Introduction
     Research Design
     Population and Sample
     Instrumentation
     Procedure
     Data Analysis
     Summary
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Introduction
     Reintroduce purpose of the study
     Appraise readers of what they can expect to read
    in this chapter
    Chapter III: Methdology

     Research Design
     Non-experimental
    ▪ Descriptive
    ▪ Comparative
    ▪ Correlational
    ▪ survey
     Experimental
    ▪ True experimental
    ▪ Quasi-experimental
    ▪ Single-subjects
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Research design
     Be specific
     Provide a rationale
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Population and Sample


     Probability or non-probability
     Sample size
     Power
     Sampling procedure
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Instrumentation
     Description
     Development
     Validity
     Reliability
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Procedure
     Detailed explanation of the procedure taken to
    implement the research design
     Ethical and legal considerations
     Consent forms
     Confidentiality and anonymity
    Chapter III: Methodology

     Data Analysis
     Treatment of data
    ▪ Scale and variables
    ▪ Missing values
     Statistical techniques used for answering the
    research questions
    ▪ assumptions
     Rationale for choice of analyses
    Chapter IV: Data Analysis (Results)

     Introduction
     Description of the sample
     Answering the research questions/hypothesis
     Additional analysis
     Summary of major findings
    Chapter V: Summary, Discussion and
    Recommendations
     Summary
     Purpose
     Literature review
     Methdologoy
     Results (major findings)
    Chapter V: Summary, Discussion and
    Recommendations
     Discussion
     Explaining why you got what you got.
    ▪ Literature review
    ▪ Personal insight
     Recommendation
     ….for practice
     ….for research
    Conducting the research/writing the
    dissertation
     Advisor/committee input
     ground rules for advisor, student and committee
     25-30% of the dissertation is the committee’s
    work
    Defending the Dissertation

     Pre-defense
     Institutional policies for the oral defense
     Formal defense
     External examiner
     format
     Revision
     Sign off

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