SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

READ EACH STATEMENT CAREFULLY. WRITE T IF THE

STATEMENT IS TRUE, F IF OTHERWISE.

1. In writing scope and delimitation, you need to write everything including the
background of the study.
2. Scope and delimitation includes a brief discussion on research method used.
3. There is a rigid format of writing scope and delimitation.
4. Scope and delimitation provides readers the whole process of the research.
5. Research design is not declared on your scope and delimitation.
6. Data analysis is declared on your scope and delimitation.
7. Research local has to be disclosed in scope and delimitation.
8. The population of the study is included on scope and delimitation.
9. The researcher can be considered as an instrument in data gathering.
10. Scope provides parameter, coverage and the processes involve in research.
Scope and delimitation is an informative part of your research. It is informative
because it is to where you declare the things you have to carry out and follow
through the course of research. I am sure, you are wondering why there is a need
for us to declare all of these to our readers. Likewise, you are puzzled what are
the elements of your research that are needed to be included? Well, let us deal
with them one by one.

Let us first dissect “scope and delimitation”.

Scope + Delimitation
POPULATION –ACCORDING TO MAJID (2018), THIS STANDS FOR
THE ENTIRE POOL FROM WHICH THE SAMPLE IS DRAWN.

When we talk about the scope of research, it commonly refers to the depth your research
area or parameters. This includes restriction of the target population, research local, specified
duration, design, procedure, and instrument used.

Consider these 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
RESEARCH LOCALE – IT REFERS TO THE PARTICULAR
LOCATION WHERE THE STUDY IS CONDUCTED.

Consider these 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
SPECIFIC DURATION. THIS STANDS FOR THE EXCLUSIVE TIME
FRAME WHEN THE RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED.

Consider these examples:

May 20 to 22 2020
School Year 2020 to 2021
From 2015 to 2020
From January 2020 to May 20202
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.

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).
a.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) .
b.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).
1.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.

2.Data Gathering Procedure. This refers to the step-by-step

procedures that you employ before and during the data gathering.
1. Instrument. These are measurement devices that you use in your research.
It can be in a form of test, survey, questionnaire, and the like. However, 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).

2. 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.
On the other hand when we talk about 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. Commonly,
research objectives, and description of variables are mentioned
while research questions are just reflected on the set
objectives. Variable are also explained and declared, as well as
to the theoretical objectives of the study. On the other hand,
sampling method, target sample size, and justifications in
choosing the above mentioned scope are provided to clearly set
the parameter of the study.
 In some researches, instead of scope and
delimitation, they use scope and limitation. The
term limitation is about the external and internal
influences that researcher has no control of. They
can be shortcomings, conditions or influences
that cannot be avoided due to the limitation of the
study. Thus, these limitations is a declaration of
the possible influences to the result of the study.