PRACTICAL RESEARCH

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 CONCEPTUAL
PARADIGM AND
THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORK
✓All your plans, concepts, or ideas about the many aspects of your
research are shown and clarified graphically and verbally in the conceptual
framework.
✓Conceptual framework enables the readers to clearly see in their minds
the basic structure of the research and the relationships of variables and
other factual things involved in the study
✓There is this other part of your research paper, called theoretical
framework that gives and explains the theories, principles, generalizations,
and research findings, which have some connection to your research
study.
✓Theoretical framework, knows and understand evidence-based truths,
concepts, speculations, and assumptions underlying each aspect of the
research and the relationships of these research features with one another.
It provides the theoretical perspectives or the core theory on which to
anchor the study.
SAMPLE OF CONCEPTUAL PARADIGM
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
Demographic Analysis and Analysis and
profile of the pre -
Interpretation of Interpretation of
elementary
teachers according Perception of Perception of
to their age, sex, Pre – Pre –
civil status, and Elementary Elementary
length of service. Teachers on Teachers on
Perceptions of the Early Exposure Early Exposure
pre-elementary to Gadgets of to Gadgets of
teachers handling
Pre – Pre –
pre-elementary
pupils which had Elementary Elementary
an early exposure Pupils of Our Pupils of Our
to gadgets Lady Therese Lady Therese
corresponding to Integrated Integrated
the pupils’ School through School through
physical, interview interview
academical, and
schedule and schedule and
psychosocial
aspect. focus group focus group
discussion discussion