Draft your Significance of the Study
Topic 3: Background and Introduction

The Significance of the Study describes what contribution your study will make to the broad literature or set of broad educational problems upon completion. In this activity, you will draft your Significance of the Study by determining what you hope will benefit others and/or how readers will benefit or learn from your study.

As you draft your Significance of the Study, consider the following:

• Broadly, a component of the significance of the study is to illustrate the contribution that your study will make to the existing literature on the problem or broad problem areas of education.
• Generally, a component of the significance of the study is to elucidate exactly how you will extend the current literature.
• Specifically, a component of the significance of the study is to determine who benefits from the study and how that specific audience will benefit from its findings. What contribution will your study make to the literature or to the field? (As an Ed.D. dissertation the focus should be on how this dissertation will contribute to our efforts in practice)?
  • What do you hope others will learn from your study?
  • Who benefits?