Northern Quezon College, Inc

Graduate School-Master of Arts in Education in Educational Management

Thesis Seminar
Step 1: Three-Level Chunking from a General Concept into its Corresponding Specific Concepts
for a Research Topic (25 points)
Written Lecture by: Dr. Ferdinand C. Lacuata
Online Lecture Delivery by: Lienol Boreo

Name: AMERIZA T. CRISOSTOMO Score: _______

General Instructions: Your specific research topic must: (1) emanate from one subject from your five
major subjects in the MAED Educational Management Program, (2) be a specific topic that interests you so
much that it drives you to go on exploring theoretically and practically by conducting a serious online
review of related literature, and (3) be a research topic that provides issues or concerns or problems
necessitating an immediate intervention or solution. To satisfy these three criteria, you must be able to
perform a three-level chunking from a general concept into its corresponding specific concepts until you
will be able to come up with your specific research topic. The following are the specific research tasks:

Task 1.1 Chunk your MAED major subjects into five components to be reflected in the First Concept
Map, and choose one subject that highly interests you for a research review.

1. Human Resource Management

5. Current Trends and Problems in

2. Essentials of Management 5 Major Subjects in
Educational Management Education

3. Administration and Supervision of

4. School and Community Relations
Schools

Task 1.2 Chunk the chosen subject into FIVE specific concepts to be reflected in the Second Concept
map, and choose one specific concept.

1. school policies and guidelines

2. safety and security of the school Administration 5. the school’s environment

and Supervision
of Schools

3. developing action plan 4. protection of the students

Task 1.3 Chunk the chosen one specific concept into more specific concepts, and choose one or two or
three concepts for your final research topic.

1. anti-bullying policy of the school

 2. child-friendly status of the school’s
environment 5.

3. develop an action plan to address

4.
issues

Task 1.4 If you have one or two or three very specific concepts, you have to conceptually integrate or
combine these concepts to come up with a very specific concept with two or three variables. Just below,
write the integrated or combined specific concept in a very short sentence. Just the same, write in one short
sentence your generated concept even if you have only one very specific concept as your research topic.

Specific Research Topic:

1. Extent of child-friendly and anti-bullying environment: an input to enhancement action plan

2. Assessment of child-friendly and anti-bullying environment: basis for developing action plan
3. Effectiveness of school’s child-friendly and anti-bullying policy: a systematic review

Note: At the end of this workshop, you must submit three specific research topics.