PRACTICAL RESEARCH POINTERS

Rational or justification of the topic – you can specify your main goal

General information about the topic

- Introduce the general topic

Methodology

- What is methodology all about?

- Data gathering procedure
- Sampling
- Observation
- Validity

Introduction - introduces the overview of the study/topic

RRL- review of related literature

- What is RRL all about?

- Describes past important researches and how it relates to the study

Table of contents – it specifies the different sections in your paper. As well as, it shows the page number
they are in

Significance of the study – specifies the contribution of the study/ it enumerates the beneficiaries of the
study

STOP – indicates the problem or issue

Scope and limitation – explain the extent or boundary

Background of the study-

Hypothesis – denies or affirm

Shows the connection of variables – conceptual framework

Unlocks difficult terms – definition of terms

Effects of participation in interschool contests in shs students

Population: shs students

Types of variables

Independent variable

Dependent variable

Moderator variable

Compounding variable

Extraneous variable

Dichotomous variable

Ordinal variable

Nominal variables

TYPES OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

Experimental research

Non- experimental research

Quasi-experimental research

Descriptive research

Correlational research

STUDY THE DIFFERENT CONTRIBUTION OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS