Professional significance of a study

1. Professional significance

2. Objective ways to assess professional
significance
• A professionally significant study makes an
important contribution to the field in one of the
following ways:
▪ Testing a theory
▪ Contributing to the development of theory
▪ Extending knowledge
▪ Changing prevailing beliefs
▪ Suggesting relationships between phenomena
▪ Extending a research methodology or instrument
▪ Providing greater depth of knowledge about
previously studied phenomena