Purpose Statement and English

Correlational Study Identify a Group The group that will be used for this correlational study is the group of 6th graders from the school district of Winchester in VA. A control group will also be used from the same sample. The sample will include 200 6th graders. This is an appropriate sample size for a study (Chapter 7: Survey Research, n.d.).

Identify Two Variables Two variables that might be related and that are relevant for this group are: 1) the teaching of sentence diagramming, and 2) the ability to successfully comprehend, write and break down English sentences. Write a Purpose Statement A purpose statement for a correlational study using the group and two variables identified above could read: This purpose of this study is to identify whether there is a relationship between the teaching of sentence diagramming to 6th graders in Winchester and the ability to comprehend, write and break down English sentences.

The findings will either show that sentence diagramming does assist students in learning how to read and write in English, or it will show that there is no relationship between sentence diagramming and English writing and reading skills. The measurement for this study will be nominal (Chapter 8: Correlational Research, n.d.): either there will be a correlation or there will not be a correlation based on the impact of the IV (Mills et al., 2012).

The first group will be taught sentence diagramming and the second group will not be taught sentence.