Northern Quezon College, Inc

Graduate School-Master of Arts in Education in Educational Management

Thesis Seminar Task 6
Step 3: Organization of the Three Chapters, and other Sections of the THESIS PROPOSAL (100 points)
Written Lecture by Dr. Ferdinand C. Lacuata
Online Lecture Delivery by Lienol Boreo

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General Instructions: By now, you must have already finished the demands of STEPs 1 and 2 with
Research Tasks a, b, and c. Therefore, you are ready to perform STEP 3 which focuses on your
Organization of the Three Chapters, and other Sections of your Thesis Proposal. Carefully read to be
able to perform all the steps with high accuracy.

Write your Approved Thesis Title:

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION Generally, the INTRODUCTION is the outcome of

the ORRL that you have previously conducted.
(It may have more or less 10 pages).
The INTRODUCTION has seven sections (in italics)
with paragraphs and visual presentations in
figures that must be logically interconnected with
one another.

Specifically, the INTRODUCTION must begin with

the:

1. Background of the Study that has two to three

paragraphs to reflect the rationale of the study:
what triggered or promoted you to conduct this
study. This rationale must be taken from the
GAPS that you have established in your
theoretical review and practical reviews (Refer to
the outputs of your STEP 2a and 2b). State the
gaps in theory or concept first; and then; the gaps
in practice.

2. Theoretical Framework that has two to three

paragraphs to justify the gaps in theory and
practice by logically connecting or relating these
identified gaps to at least 5 theoretical reviews
and another 5 practical reviews. Again, go back to
refer to the outputs of your STEPs 2a and 2b to
show how these 10 researchers’ or authors’
frameworks or issues, or discourses logically
fortify or relate to your study. The outcome of
this section is your Theoretical Framework which
is a synthesis of theoretical and practical reviews
with the identified GAPS as the KEY CONCEPTS.

3. Conceptual Framework is formulated from the

Theoretical Framework. Your Conceptual
Framework must be formulated by clearly

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 showing the engagement of the KEY CONCEPTS
to be argued in the study. The Conceptual
Framework is a visual presentation which is your
Figure 1. Then, two to three paragraphs must be
provided as an explanation of the Conceptual
Framework.

4. Statement of Problems (SOPs) is formulated

based on the Conceptual Framework. The SOPs
start with a very short paragraph to state your
general research objective or purpose to be
followed by the enumeration of specific research
problems or SOPs.

5. Hypotheses are formulated based on some

SOPs especially those SOPs with significant
relationships/differences. However, the Null
Hypotheses are only reflected in quantitative
research, and not in qualitative research which
only requires the engagement of the KEY
CONCEPTS to serve as the argument in the study.

6. Significance of the Study may have three

paragraphs, as follows:

● One paragraph for the contribution of

the research to the target participants or
respondents of the study.
● One paragraph for the contribution of
the research to the setting of the
research (i.e. its teachers and school
administrators).
● One paragraph for the contribution of
the research to the discipline as well as to
future researchers who would intend to
explore, verify, deepen, and improve the
same research.

7. Scope and Limitation - This section discusses

the parameters of the research in a paragraph. It
answers the basic questions:

● What – The topic of investigation and

the variables included
● Where –The venue or the setting of the
research
● When–The time frame by which the
study was conducted
● Why – The general objectives of the
research
● Who – The subject of the study, the

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Chapter 2: Online Review of Related Literature
(It may have more or less 10 pages).
Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY
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population, and the sampling
● How – The methodology of the research
which may include the research design,
Methodology, and the research
instrument
The limitation discusses why certain variables
were not included in the research; what are the
possible constraints of the study. Two to three
paragraphs must be provided as an explanation
of the scope and limitations.
8. Definition of KEY TERMS or KEY CONCEPTS
which must be both theoretically and practically
defined. To give the theoretical and practical
definitions of a key term, you have to go back to
your Theoretical Review and Practical Review in
STEP 2a and 2b, respectively. Key terms maybe
three to five only that logically form the research
title. Remember that this section is not a Glossary
of Terms, which does not logically form the
research title. Lastly, writers or authors that
provided you with all the definitions—theoretical
or practical—must be duly cited, acknowledged,
and listed in the REFERENCES section.
In this chapter, those in italics will become the
main headings of its sections with the
corresponding KEY CONCEPTS or KEY TERMS as
the specific headings. This is the result of your
ORRL with an opening paragraph stating your KEY
TERMS as sectional headings:
1. Reflect on the result of your Theoretical
Review in STEP 2a with 10 citations in 2-3 pages.
Your Theoretical Review has your KEY CONCEPTS
or KEY TERMS as your headings.
2. Reflect on the result of your Practical Review
in STEP 2b with 10 citations in 2-3 pages. Your
Practical Review has your KEY CONCEPTS or KEY
TERMS as your headings.
3. Reflect on the result of your Methodological
Review in STEP 2c with 10 citations in 2-3 pages.
4. Reflect on your Review Synthesis with an
ending paragraph stating your derived research
title, all in 1-2 pages.
The result of your Methodological Review must
 (It may have more or less7 pages). lead you to the sections of Chapter 3, as follows:

1. Research Design has one or two paragraphs to

justify the use of either quantitative or qualitative
research design concerning your research
objectives and SOPs stipulated in Chapter 1. You
have to specify which subtype of quantitative or
qualitative research design you will be using.
Then, fortify your justification for the use of such
research design by citing at least three authors
from your Methodological Review.

2. Research Locale has two or three paragraphs

to describe the nature of the setting of your
study. You may also include a map of the setting.

3. Respondents of the study have two to three

paragraphs to describe the nature or
characteristics of the respondents or
subjects/participants of the study. This may
include the size of the population and its
important characteristics in relation to what is
studied, the sample size and the sampling
technique used the variables considered in case
there are equating factors, the strata in case of
stratified sampling, or percentages in case of
proportional sampling. A distribution table for
the respondents or a graphical presentation may
be used to describe the sample size which is
followed a by discussion.

4. Research Instruments and Validation are

usually derived from Theoretical and Practical
Reviews. You must reflect on the following
specific processes:

3.1 In the Construction and Validation Process,

you have three options for your data-gathering
tools:

a. fully adopted tool with no try-out. This happens

when your theoretical review offers you a
theoretically made research tool that is anchored
on your Theoretical Framework in Chapter 1.
Usually, this is already a standardized research
tool. When you intend to use it, you have to
indicate that you have sought the approval of the
author for its use in your research. That letter has
to be appended together with the research tool.
No more validation processes will be done.

b. partly adopted (modified) research tool.

Perhaps, you have the intention of using a
published research tool; however, it still needs a

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 try-out validation to reveal its appropriateness to
your target research locale or setting especially
your participants or respondents. The results of
the try-out validation will be incorporated to
revise the research tool. Moreover, you need at
least three content experts to validate the
theoretical boundaries of the specific items in the
revised tool, and at least one language expert to
validate and countercheck your language
construction. Again, you have to indicate that you
have sought the approval of the author for its use
in your research. That letter has to be appended
together with the original and the revised
research tools.

c. researcher-made tool. This usually happens

when the Theoretical and Practical Reviews do
not offer any research tools for your research.
Therefore, you have to make your research tool.
In the Construction Stage of your tool, you have
to reflect that you will undergo the following
processes:

1) Decide which type of research tool you will

have to prepare according to the mandates of the
SOPs.

2) See to it that the main components and all

specific indicators or items in your research tool
are theoretically or conceptually anchored as well
as SOP-directed. Therefore, to be guided and
directed, you have to go back to your Theoretical
and Conceptual Frameworks and you’re SOPs.

In the Validation Stage, you have to reflect that

you will undergo the following specific processes:

1) try it out to a small group of participants or

respondents to reveal its construct or content
validity. This requires a written permission letter
to the head of the target participants.

2) subject it to a statistical procedure to reveal its

internal consistency.

3) incorporate the try-out and internal

consistency results to revise the research tool.

4) Subject it to three content experts to validate

the theoretical boundaries of all the specific
items; and then, at least one language expert to
validate and countercheck your language
construction.

5. Data Gathering Procedure

This section discusses in paragraph the different

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 activities undertaken to complete the research
which follows the general procedure of the study.
A Gantt Chart of activities may guide the
discussion.

For experimental/scientific research, an

operational procedure of the experiment should
be presented which can be supported by a flow
chart for clarity.

6. Statistical Treatment of Data discusses the

Statistical tool to be used for each question in the
statement of the problem is discussed under this
section in paragraph form.

◼ Formulas need not be written.

◼ Ranges used for descriptive statistics

should be presented

has the enumeration of statistical procedures

following the sequence of SOPs in Chapter 1. For
every enumeration, justify the specific use of a
certain statistical procedure vis-à-vis the SOP by
citing its appropriateness and robustness. Some
SOPs may not need statistical computations
because they may be dependent upon the first
set of SOPs.

Finally, append the final researcher-made tool in

the appendix section.

REFERENCES You have to reflect a total of 30 references (10

from the Theoretical Review; 10 from Practical
(It may have more or less 3 pages).
Review, and 10 from Methodological Review).

Carefully check whether or not all these 30

references accurately appear as your citations in
Chapter 1, especially in Chapter 2, and a little in
Chapter 3.

APPENDIX A. Letters of Request for the (1) use of an

adopted research tool, (2) try-out to target
respondents or participants, (3) validation
processes by content and language experts, and
(4) informed consent from parents and/or
participants of the study

B. The Constructed and Validated Research Tools

C. The Researcher’s Concise Resume

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 SUBMIT the FULLTEXT of your THESIS PROPOSAL on Dec. 23, 2023, before 6 pm to our Google
Classroom in preparation for your THESIS PROPOSAL DEFENSE on Jan. 13 – 14, 2024.

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