Practical

Research 1

SCOPE & DELIMITATION OF

RESEARCH
Let’s RECALL
Identify the elements
by analyzing the given
sample of a general
problem provided.
 General Problem
The purpose of this study is to describe the training of Aeta
teachers from Castillejos, Zambales for the past ten years to
provide insights into the formulation of a teacher education model
for indigenous people.

1. main task : to describe

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2. major variable : training
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3. participants : Aeta teachers
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4. setting : Castillejos, Zambales
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5. intended output : teacher education model for indigenous
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people
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together all the given clues.

01.

POPULATION
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all the given clues.

02.

SCOPE
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together all the given clues.

03.

INSTRUMENT
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04.

COVERAGE
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05.

LIMIT
 SCOPE
&
DELIMITATION
 OBJECTIVES

Objective 1 Objective 2
Indicate scope and Write the scope and
delimitation of delimitation of own
research research
 SCOPE + DELIMITATION

SCOPE 1 DELIMITATION 2
It commonly refers to It refers to choices made
the depth of your by the researcher that
research area or serves as boundary
parameters. (Simon, 2011).
 SCOPE
This includes restriction of the:
 01. Population
According to Majid (2018), this stands for the entire pool from which the
sample is drawn.

Examples:
a. Schools operating in Quezon City (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
 02 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 Bulacan State University
 03 Specific Duration
.
This stands for the exclusive time frame when the research is conducted.

Examples:

May 20 to Dec. 22, 2020

School Year 2020 to 2021
From 2015 to 2020
From January 2020 to May 2020
 04 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).
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).
 05 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
06 Procedure

This refers to the step-by-step procedures that

you employ before and during the data
gathering.
 07 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 serves as a tool in gathering the
data (Bahrami, Soleimani, Yaghoobzadeh, & Ranjbar,
2016).
 08 Data Analysis

These are the systematic processes you employ to

describe or interpret your data. It can be thematic
network analysis, dendo gramming, structural
analysis, text analysis, and Colaizzi procedure.
 DELIMITATION
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. Variables 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.
Let’s do this!
Read carefully the scope and delimitation on the
next slide. Identify if the underlined word is
population, research locale, specific duration,
research method, protocols followed, data
gathering procedure, instrument, research
objective, or data analysis.
Population

Research Method

Population

Specific Duration

Sampling Method
Writing the
Scope &
Delimitation
Commonly, scope and delimitation is written in three (3) paragraphs.

The first paragraph contains methods, research design, research locale,

time duration, population, sampling and class size.

The second paragraph includes the instrument used, validation and

protocols followed in the conduct of the study.

The last paragraph is the declaration of data gathering and analysis. It is

important that you need to provide proper justifications of the elements
you will be using. It is done through the wisdom of the experts – citation.
Consider this!
Figure 1

“Lived Experiences of
Persons With
Disabilities on Verbal
Bullying”
 Figure 2

Answers to Figure 1

Verbal
bullying
If you are going to write the information gathered, the first
paragraph of the scope and delimitation will be like this …

This qualitative research aims to explore on the lived-experiences of

the PWD grade 11 students about bullying. According to Mcleod (2019) this
kind of research deals with the description and interpretation of a
phenomena based from how these became meaningful to a person or
group of people. As a phenomenological study, it determines the coping
mechanism of the said students on their distinct experience about verbal
bullying. The participants are selected using snowball method. Patton
(2001) defined this sampling as referral sampling wherein it uses a small
pool of initial informants to nominate other participants of the study.
 Figure 3

For Paragraph 2
 Figure 4

Answers to Figure 3
If you are going to write the information gathered, the second
paragraph of the scope and delimitation will be like this …

In this qualitative research, the researcher serves as the main

instrument of the study (Pezalla, Pettigrew and Miller-Day, 2012). Another
tool is the interview guide. This unstructured interview guide is a
researcher-made instrument based from the objectives of the study. It is
composed of five (5) questions. Objectively, interview questions are
formulated to gather necessary information about the participants’ lived
experience as well as their coping mechanism. It is validated by a group
of experts using the validation matrix to identify its appropriateness of
the questions and suitability to the research participants. Prescribed
standard and necessary protocols are religiously complied to ethically
follow the norms of conducting research.
 Figure 5

For Paragraph 3
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Answers to Figure 5
If you are going to write the information gathered, the third
paragraph of the scope and delimitation will be like this …

In gathering data, individualized and focus group discussion is employed

depending on the preference of the participants. Because of the impossibility of
personalized interview, this will be carried through social media platforms either
through Zoom app or Facebook Video Conferencing. According to Eysenbach (2019),
these platforms provided opportunities in conducting qualitative research.
Likewise, because of its mass usage, it provides potential options for this kind of
study. Interviews are recorded and transcribed in verbatim. Translations into
English is accomplished through the help of an expert. Anonymity of participants is
secured likewise with the information they will provide. In analyzing the data,
thematic network analysis is employed. It is explained as a web-like illustrations
that summarizes themes (Stirling, 2001). Particularly, this study seeks to identify the
salient themes through coding. This is to facilitate structuring and depiction of the
themes into an emerging main theme.
 Put together the three paragraphs that you
have created to form the Scope and
delimitation of your study. However, use
FUTURE TENSE for the pattern of your thesis
proposal.
Any
questions?
 Let’s sum it up!

Share an insight that you

have learned from the
discussion.
ASYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITY

Construct the Scope and Delimitation of your own study

using the template shared in class today.
 Thank You!
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