PRACTICAL

RESEARCH 1
 Scope and Delimitation
of Research
SCOPE
• It is the informative part of research because it is to where you
declare the things you have to carry out and follow through the
course of research.
• It includes restriction of the target population, research local,
specified duration, design, procedure, and instrument used.
 TARGET POPULATION
• According to Majid (2018), this stands for the entire pool
from which the sample is drawn.
• Examples
a. Schools operating in Bataan (Private and Public)
b. Senior High School Students of a School
c. Grade 10 Students in a School Division
d. Tricycle Drivers operating in a Barangay e. All Working Students
in a grade level
 Scope and Delimitation
of Research
DELIMITATION
• It refers to choices made by researcher that serves as boundary
(Simon 2011). This includes research objectives, questions,
variables, theoretical objectives you adopted, target samples, and
justifications that limits the scope of the study.
• It is the informative part of research because it is to where you
declare the things you have to carry out and follow through the
course of research.
 SCOPE AND LIMITATION
• Limitation is about the external and internal influences that
researcher has no control of.
• Limitation can be shortcomings, conditions or influences that
cannot be avoided due to the limitation of the study.
• Limitation is a declaration of the possible influences to the result
of the study.
 RESEARCH LOCALE
• It refers to the particular location where the study is
conducted.
• Examples
Lamao National High School Schools Division of Bataan
Dinalupihan Region III – Central Luzon
Pampanga Balanga City
Limay Senior High School University of the Assumption
Barangay St. Francis II Bataan Peninsula State University
WRITING SCOPE AND
DELIMITATION
• The underlined sentences serve
as your scope and delimitation.
They limit down the scope of
the study.
• On the second paragraph, you
need to remember that it
contains instrument used,
validation and protocols
followed in the conduct of the
study.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Cristobal and Cristobal (2017) states that research is a very noble
undertaking if it makes significant contributions to the community and to
the academic field or discipline where the researcher is affiliated with.

This is basically the reason why the researcher needs to determine the
relevance of their study. It should apparently identify the purpose that
the research will serve and how it will contribute to the society, the
country, the government, the institution or agency concerned, and the
research community.
SAMPLE OF SIGNIFANCE OF THE STUDY
 SPECIFIC DURATION
• This stands for the exclusive time frame when the research is
conducted.
• Examples
May 20 to 22 2020
School Year 2020 to 2021
From 2015 to 2020
From January 2020 to May 2022
 RESEARCH METHOD
• This refers to the systematic plan for conducting research
which includes strategies, process, techniques, and
procedures for collecting and analyzing data (MacDonald
and Headlam 2008).
• Here are the four (4) most commonly used qualitative
designs that you can use:
 RESEARCH METHOD
a. Ethnography – If your research is about a description or investigation about
customs of individual and culture, this design can be used (Elis and Bochner
1996).
b. Phenomenology – If your research is about the commonality of lived
experience within a group of individuals or description of a particular
phenomenon, this research design can be used (Singh 2018).
c. Case Study – If your research is about an investigation of a phenomenon
within the context of real-life situation, you can use this design (Kothari 2004) .
d. Grounded Theory – If your research aims toward a development of a theory in
an inductive manner, you can use this design (VanderStoep and Johnston
2009).
 PROTOCOLS FOLLOWED
• This refers to the standard procedure, system, or rules that
you follow in gathering data.

• It can be the permission in the conduct of the study,

communication letter to the respondents, or agreement on
the conduct of interview.
 DATA GATHERING PROCEDURES
• This refers to the step-by-step procedures that
you employ before and during the data
gathering.
 INSTRUMENT
• These are measurement devices that you use in your research in
a form of test, survey, questionnaire, and the like.

• In qualitative research, you as the researcher is the instrument,

and your interview guide serve as a tool in gathering the data
(Bahrami, Soleimani, Yaghoobzadeh, & Ranjbar, 2016).
 DATA ANALYSIS
• These are the systematical processes you employ to
describe or interpret your data.
• It can be thematic network analysis, dendogramming,
structural analysis, text analysis, and Collaizi
procedure.