NOTE: This is a sample on how your Scope and Delimitation of the Study will be

written. This is my own study while I am pursuing my doctorate degree. I hope this will
be a great help for you all!!!

Scope and Delimitation of the Study

This study will be concerned mainly on the analysis on the effects of student leaders’
profile and extent of involvement in co and extra-curricular activities to their personality
development and academic performance. Covered by this study will be six technological state
universities in Region III, namely: (1) Bulacan State University in City of Malolos, Bulacan; (2)
Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University in Bacolor, Pampanga: (3) Bataan
Peninsula State University in Balanga City, Bataan; (4) Tarlac State University in Tarlac City,
Tarlac; (5) Ramon Magsaysay Technological University in Iba, Zambales; and (6) Nueva Ecija
University of Science and Technology in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.
The students particularly the student leaders of these universities will be included as
respondents of the study since all of them are classified as technological and/or polytechnic state
universities. These six universities mentioned-above started basically as polytechnic college. In
fact, BulSU was known then as Bulacan College of Arts and Trades; DHVTSU was then Don
Honorio Ventura College of Arts and Trades; BPSU was then Bataan Polytechnic State College;
TSU was formerly known as Tarlac College of Technology; Ramon Magsaysay Technological
University was started as Ramon Magsaysay School of Arts and Trades; and NEUST was known
before as Central Luzon Polytechnic College.
On the other hand, Bulacan Agricultural State College in San Ildefonso, Bulacan;
Pampanga Agricultural College in Magalang, Pampanga; and Tarlac College of Agriculture in
Camiling, Tarlac will not be considered as respondents because they were classified as
agricultural colleges. The Aurora State College in Baler, Aurora, will not be included also as
respondent of this study due to the fact that its student population is very small compared to the
six state universities which are mentioned earlier. The Philippine State College for Aeronautics
in Basa Airbase, Floridablanca, Pampanga, and Philippine Merchant Marine Academy in San
Narciso, Zambales will not be used also as respondents of this study because they are classified
under the DBM-NCR coverage and also categorized as special colleges which means that they
are offering specialized courses exclusively for their institutions only such as Aeronautics and
Marine-related courses.
The researcher will use purposive sampling in choosing the subject of this study. This
type of sampling procedure is used when the researcher wants to assess a particular subject of
people. When taking the sample, according to Patton (1990), reject people who do not fit a
particular profile, subjects are selected because of some characteristics. Purposive sampling
starts with a purpose in mind and the sample is thus selected to include people of interest and
exclude those who do not suit the purpose. For this purpose, the respondents will be limited to
second and third year college students who have been elected as officers of the class and/or
organizations or have been student leaders during the first semester of the school year 2011-
2012. The researcher believed that these student leaders are good representatives of their
institutions since they are directly involved in the co and extra-curricular programs of their
institutions thus, they can determine and assess the effects of students’ involvement in such
activities to their personality development and academic performance.
Through networking system particularly with the use of cellular phone and/or telephone,
the researcher will contact different school administrators of the six state universities in Region
III who can provide her the data needed to accomplish this study. The researcher will ask
permission from the University President and Dean/Director for Student Affairs through a letter
of request signed by the dean of the Graduate School to conduct the study and distribute the
questionnaires. Likewise, the respondents will be informed properly with regards to the basic
purpose of the study and they will be given ample time to accomplish the questionnaire. They
will also assured of the confidentiality of their answers.
This study will also use descriptive type of research. According to Van Dalen (1993),
descriptive method of investigation is effective in describing the status of phenomena. It is not
simply a routine fact finding activity. Its strength lies in describing status and identifying the
relationship between and among variables. Hence, this method will suit the purpose of describing
and analyzing the effects of students’ involvement in co and extra-curricular activities to their
personality development and academic performance. The variables of this study will be
categorized as independent (student leaders’ profile i.e. gender, course, religion, and total
monthly family income; and various activities involved in by the students like co and extra-
curricular activities) and dependent (effects of students’ involvement in co and extra-curricular
activities to their personality development vis a vis moral, physical, psychological, social, and
spiritual). For purposes of this study, the students’ grade point average (GPA) will be used as a
measure of their academic performances. This will be done through proper coordination with the
offices of the MIS (Management Information System) and/or the University Registrar of each
respective respondent institution. Each of the independent variables (IVs) and dependent
variables (DVs) will be described and quantified using the descriptive statistics of percent, mean,
rank, and standard deviation. The effects of each of the independent variables (IVs) on each of
the dependent variables (DVs) will be determined by the Standard Multiple Regression Analysis.
The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) will also be utilized to facilitate the
processing and interpretation of data.