Rational & Significance
Rationale/Justification of your topic
o Why should we pay attention to your topic or the issue you want to
study/address?
o Why should we care about your topic?
o Why is there a need to focus on the topic?
o To whom is it important?
o What benefit(s) will occur if your study is done?
It makes the purpose worth pursuing
Your study should have a value not only to yourself but also to the community of the
respondents, has an impact on your field of specialization and you should mention
the sectors that will be benefited by your study.
Guidance in explaining the importance of the study.
o The rationale, timeliness, and/or relevance of the study
o Possible solutions to existing problems or improvement to unsatisfactory
conditions.
o Who are to be benefited and how they are going to be benefited.
o Possible implications.
o Rationale
o It makes clear how the findings of the proposed study will help
o In resolving uncertainties,
o In leading to new scientific understanding and
o In influencing clinical and public health policy.
Significance of the study to practice
An assumption is a realistic expectation, which is something that we believe to be
true. However, no adequate evidence exists to support this belief
An assumption is an act of faith that does not have empirical evidence to support it.
Assumptions provide a basis to develop theories and research instruments and
therefore influences the development and implementation of the research process
Assumptions are statements that are taken for granted or are considered true, even
though they have not been scientifically proven
They are principles that are generally accepted as true based on logic or reason but
without proof or verification
Clarify Assumptions:
Any set of research questions imply that the researcher has some hunches about it /
some assumptions hence the need to investigate it.
It is useful thus to set out these assumptions right at the beginning and allow the
findings to refute or confirm them later.
Rationale/Justification of your topic
o Why should we pay attention to your topic or the issue you want to
study/address?
o Why should we care about your topic?
o Why is there a need to focus on the topic?
o To whom is it important?
o What benefit(s) will occur if your study is done?
It makes the purpose worth pursuing
Your study should have a value not only to yourself but also to the community of the
respondents, has an impact on your field of specialization and you should mention
the sectors that will be benefited by your study.
Guidance in explaining the importance of the study.
o The rationale, timeliness, and/or relevance of the study
o Possible solutions to existing problems or improvement to unsatisfactory
conditions.
o Who are to be benefited and how they are going to be benefited.
o Possible implications.
o Rationale
o It makes clear how the findings of the proposed study will help
o In resolving uncertainties,
o In leading to new scientific understanding and
o In influencing clinical and public health policy.
Significance of the study to practice
An assumption is a realistic expectation, which is something that we believe to be
true. However, no adequate evidence exists to support this belief
An assumption is an act of faith that does not have empirical evidence to support it.
Assumptions provide a basis to develop theories and research instruments and
therefore influences the development and implementation of the research process
Assumptions are statements that are taken for granted or are considered true, even
though they have not been scientifically proven
They are principles that are generally accepted as true based on logic or reason but
without proof or verification
Clarify Assumptions:
Any set of research questions imply that the researcher has some hunches about it /
some assumptions hence the need to investigate it.
It is useful thus to set out these assumptions right at the beginning and allow the
findings to refute or confirm them later.
