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Practical
Research 2
Quarter 1 – Module 5:
RESEARCH QUESTIONS,
SCOPE, & DELIMITATION
 Lesson
RESEARCH QUESTIONS,
5 SCOPE, & DELIMITATION

What’s In

Directions: Arrange the scrambled letters to form a word and give your own definition
of each word. Write your answers on the space provided before the
number.

_________________________1. U E Q S O I N T S-____________________________________

_________________________2. R C H A E S R E-_____________________________________

_________________________3. T L E I T-_____________________________________________

_________________________4. B C A K R G O N D U-________________________________

_________________________5. P X E L O M C-_______________________________________

Notes to the Teacher

Should you have queries on the given tasks, always ask or
communicate your subject teacher.

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 What’s New

Directions: Describe or define the following terms in your own words. Write your
answers on the corresponding column.

Research Questions Scope Delimitation

1. 1. 1.

2. 2. 2.

3. 3. 3.

4. 4. 4.

5 5. 5.

What is It

Steps in developing a research question:

1. Choose an interesting general topic. Even directed academic

research should focus on a topic in which the writer is at least
somewhat personally invested.
2. Do some preliminary research on your general topic. Do a few quick
searches in current periodicals and journals on your topic to see
what’s already been done and to help you narrow your focus. What
questions does this early research raise?
3. Consider your audience. For most college papers, your audience
will be academic, but always keep your audience in mind when
narrowing your topic and developing your question. Would that
particular audience be interested in this question?
4. Start asking questions. Taking into consideration all of the above,
start asking yourself open-ended “how” and “why” questions about
your general topic.
5. Evaluate your question. After enlisting the questions, evaluate
these questions to realize if they would be effective research
questions, or if they need more revisions (Creswell, 2012).

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Let us take a look the example below:

Research Title:

Writing Proficiency Level of Grade 11 HUMSS Students: Basis for

Contextualized Teaching-Learning Module

Research Questions:

1.What is the writing proficiency level of Grade 11 HUMSS students in

terms of:
a. grammar;
b. mechanics; and
c. organization?

2.What contextualized teaching-learning module can be designed on the

least developed writing skill/s of Grade 11 HUMSS students?; and

3. What is the validity level of the module?

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What is scope and delimitation of the study?

The scope of study in the thesis or research paper contains the

explanation of what information or subject is being analyzed. It is
followed by an explanation of the limitation of the research. Research
usually limited in scope by sample size, time and geographic area. While
the delimitation of study is the description of the scope of study. It will
explain why definite aspects of a subject were chosen and why others
were excluded. It mentions the research method used as well as the
certain theories that applied to the data (Esposito, 2002).

Delimitations and limitations clarify the boundaries, exceptions,

and reservations inherent in every study. The two concepts are different
in that:

Delimitations
It involves the scope of a study. For example, the scope may focus on
specific variables, specific participants, specific sites, or narrowed to one
type of research design (e.g., ethnography or experimental research).

Limitations
It aims to identify potential weaknesses of the study. For example, all
statistical procedures and research strategies, such as surveys or
grounded theory studies have limitations. In introductory discussions
about these strategies, authors typically mention both their strengths
and their weaknesses (Fatatado, 2016).

Sample Scope and Delimitations

The main focus of this project was the design of an efficient Energy
Recovery System of Seawater Reverse Osmosis Plant. The system will be
using pressure technology by application of pressure exchanger as an
energy recovery device. Pressure exchanger transfer pressure from a
high-pressure stream to slow pressure stream in a ceramic motor. The
proposed system is limited only in reducing high power consumption of
the high-pressure pump. The project can be used in all existing Seawater
Reverse Osmosis Plant in the Philippines. Some calculations,
assumptions, and selections were made as a consideration of a proper
and realistic design (Creswell, 2012).

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 What’s More

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Directions: Answer what is asked.

1. What are the steps in developing a research question? Write your answers
on the space provided below.

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2. Discuss the concept of scope and delimitation of the study. Write it inside
the figure below.

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 What I Have Learned

Direction: Discuss the following terms in three sentences only.

1. delimitation-___________________________________________________________________
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2. scope-_________________________________________________________________________
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3. limitation-_____________________________________________________________________
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4. research questions-____________________________________________________________
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5. statement of the problem-______________________________________________________

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 What I Can Do

Directions: From the given scope and delimitation below, give the following:

This study focused only on the writing proficiency level of students in English in terms
of grammar, which included subject-verb agreement, verbs/tenses of verbs, adjectives,
adverb, and pronoun; mechanics of writing that entailed capitalization, punctuation
and spelling; and organization, which involved unity, completeness, coherence and
order. The Grade 11 HUMSS students of Koronadal National Comprehensive High
School enrolled in the School Year 2018-2019 were the respondents of the study. The
researcher’s validated questionnaire was used to assess learners’ writing proficiency
level. Only the least learned area of writing was addressed using the researcher’s
developed contextualized module.

A. Formulate two possible research questions:

1.________________________________________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________________________________________

B. Determine the delimitation on:

3. topic to be covered
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4. respondents
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5. methodology
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C. Make your own research title about COVID-19 Pandemic and craft at least three
(3) research questions.

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 Assessment

Direction: Answer what is asked. Write your answers on the space provided.

1. Based on the research title below, craft at least three (3) research questions. Write
these on the blanks provided.

STUDY HABITS AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE OF GRADE 11 TVL STUDENTS

a. ___________________________________________________________________________
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b. ___________________________________________________________________________
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c. ___________________________________________________________________________
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2. Formulate at least two quantitative research questions about each of the

following topics:

a. Gender Equality
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b. Learning Styles (visual, audio, kinesthetic, etc.)

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c. School Policy
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 Additional Activities

Directions: Write a short essay about the things that you have learned the most and
the least in this lesson. Write your essay on the space provided below.
Give an interesting title to your essay.

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source: https://www.thoughtco.com/essay-rubric-2081

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Assessment What I Know What’s In
1. B
2. C 1. QUESTIONS
3. A 2. RESEARCH
4. C 3. TITLE
5. D 4. BACKGROUND
5. COMPLEX
Answer Key