Research Locale

Research Locale
- is a term that refers to a specified area and/or subject that is being studied in a research
project.
- Describe briefly the place where the participants or respondents are to be obtained.
- Research locale discusses the place or setting of the study shows the target population
NOTE: Only important features which have the bearing on the present study are included.

3 types of research environment

1. Field setting
- Study conducted under actual environment condition; Simply means they occur
somewhere other than in a controlled laboratory setting.

- They occur in natural settings and use a variety of methods such as field
experiments, participant observations in villages or hospital wards, interviews in
home or office, questionnaire sent to research subjects and anything at all that does
not occur in a controlled laboratory setting.

2. Laboratory setting
- Study under other conditions such laboratory studies

Laboratory Studies – designed to be more highly controlled in relation to both the

environment in which the study is conducted & the control of extraneous & intervening
variables.

Example: Physiological laboratory experiments, chemistry & physics experiments,

psychological and microbiological experiments are laboratory experiment, designed to
control the possibility of extraneous variables influencing the effect of the independent
variable on the dependent variable. In the laboratory setting, it is possible to control
environmental variables, such as temperature, humidity, light and sound, as well as
physiological variables such as nutrition and hydration of the subjects during the
experiment in clinical researches.

3. Simulation
- Studies that replicate the essence of a system or process
- Used predominantly in operation research