Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Chapter 5- Limitations and Recommendations


The next two sections in Chapter 5 are Limitations and Recommendations. These sections ask you to take a step back and evaluate your study. Keep in mind that all studies have limitations; it is just part of the process. Describe the limitations to generalizability and/or trustworthiness that arose from execution of the study. Resist the temptation to simply copy from Chapter 1, carefully think about who participated in your study and what that means in terms of generalizability. An example might be if you did your study in a rural area, it may not be generalizable to urban areas. Again, this is fine – but you need to recognize it.  Your new limitations should be used to rethink what was written in chapter 1 for the proposal. 

The Recommendations section asks you to think through what the next research steps may be. Remember that science is based upon building upon others' research – this is your chance to influence the future! Describe recommendations for further research that are grounded in the strengths and limitations of the current study as well as the literature reviewed in chapter 2. Think about your research methods, what alterations do you suggest for future researchers? What aspects still need to be studied? Are there changes in theory that you think need to be made? Your study is now part of the literature in the field, what areas are left to explore? Think of this section as a time capsule that you are leaving for future researchers/ students, leave them with a good picture of what you see as needing additional study. 

Next time we finish our exploration of Chapter 5- Implications and Conclusions. Do you have an issue or a question that you would like me to discuss in a future post? Would you like to be a guest writer? Send me your ideas! leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu 

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