Here are the Step- by -Step guides in doing your Research Planning with your group:

A. Guidelines in Brainstorming
1. Interest in the Subject Matter
2. Richness in Available Resources or supporting evidences.
3. Timeliness and Relevance of the Topic
4. Limitation of the Subject
5. Personal Resources

B. Formulating a Research Plan

1. Focus on your track, strand or area of specialization.
2. Recall the specific area, lesson or issue in your respective field or strand that has piqued or
aroused your interest the most.
3. Generate an unanswered question or an unresolved problem from your chosen area or lesson.
4. Assess the question or problem based on the five guidelines stated above.
5. Write your research problem.

C. Formulating an Effective Research Problem

1. Indicate accurately the subject and scope of the study.
2. The title must be limited to 10 to 15 substantive words. Conjunctions (and, but, because),
prepositions (in, on, at) and articles (the, a, an) are not counted.
3. Do not include analysis of, study of, an investigation of and the like.
4. The title must be in the phrase form.
5. Avoid title that gives too much information.

D. Choose whether you will conduct for Qualitative or Quantitative Research Topic considering the
following:

QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE
Analyzed through math and statistical analysis Analyzed by summarizing, categorizing and
interpreting
Mainly expressed in numbers, graphs and tables Mainly expressed in words
Requires many respondents Requires few respondents
Closed (multiple choice) questions Open-ended questions
Key terms: testing, measurement, objectivity, Key terms: understanding, context, complexity,
replicability subjectivity

METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE
 Surveys: List of closed or multiple choice  Interviews: Asking open-ended questions
questions that is distributed to verbally to respondents.
a sample (online, in person, or over the  Focus groups: Discussion among a group
 phone).
 Experiments: Situation in
which variables are controlled and
manipulated to establish cause-and-
effect relationships.
 Observations: Observing subjects in a
natural environment where variables
can’t be controlled.
of people about a topic to gather
opinions that can be used for further
research.
 Ethnography: Participating in a
community or organization for an
extended period of time to closely
observe culture and behavior.
 Literature review: Survey of published
works by other authors.