Direct Practice Improvement Project Prospectus

Direct Practice Improvement Project Prospectus
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<Insert Chairperson Name> Prospectus Instructions:
1. Read the entire Prospectus Template to understand the requirements for writing your
Prospectus. Each section contains a narrative overview of what should be included in the
section and a table with criteria required for each section. These criteria will be used to
assess the prospectus for overall quality and feasibility of the proposed research project.
2. As you draft each section, delete the narrative instructions and insert your work related to
that section. Use the criteria table for each section to ensure that you address the
requirements for that particular section. Do not delete/remove the criteria table as this
is used by you and your Committee to evaluate your prospectus.
3. Prior to submitting your prospectus for review by your Chairperson or Methodologist (if
applicable), use the criteria table for each section to complete a self-evaluation, inserting
what you believe is your score for each listed criteria into the Learner Self-Evaluation
column.
4. The scoring for the criteria ranges from a 0-3 as defined below. Complete a realistic and
thoughtful evaluation of your work. Your Chairperson and Methodologist will also use
the criteria tables to evaluate your work.
5. Your Prospectus should be between 6-10 pages when the tables are deleted.
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Item Not Present
Item is Present, But Does Not Meet Expectations: Not all components are present. Large gaps
are present in the components that leave the reader with significant questions. All items scored at
1 must be addressed by learner per reviewer comments.
Item Approaches Meeting Expectations, But Needs Revision: Component is present and
adequate. Small gaps are present that leave the reader with questions. Any item scored at 2 must
be addressed by the learner per the reviewer comments.
Item Meets Expectations: Component is addressed clearly and comprehensively. No gaps are
present that leave the reader with questions. No changes required. Direct Practice Improvement Project Prospectus
Introduction
The Prospectus is a 6-10 page document that serves as a road map for the Direct
Practice Improvement Project. It provides the essential framework to guide the development of
the Direct Practice Improvement Project proposal. The Prospectus builds on the 10 Strategic
Points (shown in Appendix A). The Prospectus will be expanded to become your Direct Practice
Improvement Project proposal (Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of your Direct Practice Improvement
Project), which will in turn, be expanded to become the complete Direct Practice Improvement
Project (Chapters 1-5). Prior to developing the Prospectus, the 10 Strategic Points should be
reviewed with the Chairperson and Committee to ensure the10 Strategic Points are aligned and
that you have a clear, defined, and a doable project. Your 10 Strategic Points should be included
in Appendix A of this Prospectus document.
The Introduction section broadly describes the research focus that will be addressed by
the Direct Practice Improvement Project and why that focus is worthy of further investigation.
The Introduction should clearly define how the project will extend prior research. Additionally, it
should identify examples of the studies on the topic that illustrate the current research. It is also
important to ensure the Prospectus is well written from the very first draft. Prior to submitting
it to the Committee Chairperson, ensure paragraphs are developed that (1) contain a topic
sentence defining the focus of the paragraph, (2) discuss only that single topic, (3) contain three
to seven sentences, and (4) include a transition sentence to the next paragraph or section. The
sentences should also be structurally correct, short, and focused. Throughout the Direct Practice
Improvement Project process, learners are expected to always produce a well-written document.
Committee members and the AQR reviewers will not edit writing. If it is not well written, 2
reviewers will provide a high-level, general comment on the overall areas that need to be
improved before they will review the document again.
Criteria (Required Components): score 0-3 Learner SelfEvaluation Score
(0-3) Chairperson or
Reviewer Evaluation
Score
(0-3) Introduction
This section briefly overviews the research focus or problem, why this project is worth conducting, and
how this project will be completed.
The recommended length for this section is one paragraph.
1. Direct Practice Improvement Project topic is
introduced.
2. Describes how the project extends prior research
or fills a “need” or “defined gap” from current
literature.
NOTE: This Introduction section elaborates on Point #1(the Topic) from the 10 Strategic Points.
This Introduction section provides the foundation for the Introduction section in Chapter 1 of the
Proposal.
NOTE: When writing this section ensure it has a logical flow, as well as uses correct paragraph
structure, sentence structure, tense, punctuation, and APA format.
Comments from the Evaluator: Background of the Problem
The Background of the Problem section of the Prospectus uses the literature to provide
the reader with a brief historical perspective of the problem or research gap the project will

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