"When developing research, it is important to define the ten strategic points so they are simple, clear andcorrect in order to ensure anyone who reviews them will easily understand them. It is important to alignall of the ten strategic points to ensure it will be possible to conduct and complete the research. Theproblem statement must come out of the literature. The research questions must collect the data neededto answer the problem statement. The methodology and design must be appropriate for the problemstatement and research questions. The data collection and data analysis must provide the information toanswer the research questions (qualitative) or test the hypotheses (quantitative). Developing the 10Strategic Points as a two to three-page document can help ensure clarity, simplicity, correctness, andalignment of each of these ten key or strategic points in the prospectus, proposal, and dissertation.Developing these ten strategic points on a two to three pages also provides an easy-to-use use templateto ensure the ten strategic points are always worded the same throughout the prospectus, proposal, anddissertation.Value of the 10 Strategic Points DocumentThe learner can use the10 Strategic Points document for communicating and aligning key stakeholdersfor the dissertation. The learner can also use the document to get agreement between the learner and thechair on the initial focus and approach for their research. The 10 Strategic Points document is usefulwhen reviewing the proposed research with the people or organizations where the learner needs to getpermission to conduct their research. The learner needs to obtain this permission to conduct research, orsite permission, before developing their Proposal. The document is useful for communicating thedissertation focus when attracting a Content Expert as well as for reviewing the proposal with thedissertation committee and the AQR reviewers. Further, submitting this document with the prospectus tothe methodologist will assist in demonstrating to the methodologist the methodology, design, data4 collection, and data analysis align with the problem statement, research questions, and hypotheses orphenomena.Examples of the 10 Strategic Points DocumentIt is important that the ten strategic points are clear, concise, doable, and aligned throughout theprospectus, proposal, and dissertation. Following are samples for a quantitative study and a qualitativestudy.GCU does not recommend using a mixed method study, which requires the completion of a 10Strategic Points for both the quantitative and qualitative method. A mixed-methods study should not beproposed unless the learner has lots of extra time and resources to complete it. Additionally the learnermust be able to do both qualitative and quantitative data analysis. A qualitative study with numbers ordescriptive statistics does not mean it is mixed method study. Qualitative data can be displayed usingtables, charts, graphs and descriptive statistics. Following the examples below, there is a table to use todevelop your 10 Strategic Points. 5 Example 1: Ten Strategic Points for a Quantitative Correlational Study: 1. Topic – Provides a broad research topic area/title: Relationship of Servant Leadership behaviorsin principals, school culture, and student performance 2. Literature review - Lists primary points for four sections in the Literature Review: a.Background of the problem/gap; b. Theoretical foundations (models and theories to befoundation for study); c. Review of literature topics with key theme for each one; d. Summarya. Background of the problem/gap; i. The national call for school accountability is a critical issue that has gainedattention from federal educational lawmakers given the rate at which Americanstudents are falling behind other countries influenced federal lawmakers in thecreation of the NCL Act (Koretz, 2009).ii. The school principal of the twenty first century has been asked to do and becompetent in more and more tasks than the previous two centuries of schoolprincipals including improving student performance and the school culture(Kafka, 2009).iii. The characteristics of school culture are complex, and a leader must understandthese complex variables before they create change with the school (MacNeil et al.,2009).iv. Black (2010), who conducted a mixed method study showing relationship ofservant leadership and school climate, suggest additional studies in this arrea.v. Pritchard et al. (2005) explored the relationships between district and schoolculture and student achievement.6 "