Content of Scope and limitation

Scope
 When we talk about the scope of research, it commonly refers to the depth your
research area or parameters. This includes restriction of the target population, research
local, specified duration, design, procedure, and instrument used.
 Population –this stands for the entire pool from which the sample is drawn.
 Consider these examples:
 a. Schools operating in Bataan (Private and Public)
 b. Senior High School Students of a School
 Research Locale – It refers to the particular location where the study is conducted.
 Consider these examples:
 Lamao National High School Schools Division of Bataan
 Pampanga
 Specific Duration. This stands for the exclusive time frame when the research is
conducted
 Consider these examples:
 May 20 to 22 2020
 School Year 2020 to 2021
 Research Methods – This refers to the systematic plan for conducting research which
includes strategies, process, techniques, and procedures for collecting and analyzing
data
 Ethnography
 Case study
 Protocols Followed. This refers to the standard procedure, system, or rules that you
follow in gathering data. It can be the permission in the conduct of the study,
communication letter to the respondents, or agreement on the conduct of interview.
 Data Gathering Procedure. This refers to the step by step procedures that you employ
before and during the data gathering.
 Instrument. These are measurement devices that you use in your research. It can be in
a form of test, survey, questionnaire, and the like. However, in qualitative research, you
as the researcher is the instrument, and your interview guide serve as a tool in gathering
the data.
  Data Analysis. These are the systematical processes you employ to describe or
interpret your data. It can be thematic network analysis, dendogramming, structural
analysis, text analysis, and Collaizi procedure.

Limitation
 The term limitation is about the external and internal influences that researcher has no
control of. They can be shortcomings, conditions or influences that cannot be avoided
due to the limitation of the study. Thus, these limitations are a declaration of the possible
influences to the result of the study.
Writing Scope and limitation

 You need to remember that scope and delimitation is the blueprint of your research. It
needs to be synchronized with the research gap you have established in the introduction
and has to be paralleled with the research objectives and questions you have
formulated. Later in your methodology, it has to be harmonized with the processes you
will be declaring.
 Commonly, scope and delimitation is written in three (3) paragraphs. The first paragraph
contains methods, research design, research locale, time duration, population, sampling
and class size.
 The second paragraph includes the instrument used, validation and protocols followed in
the conduct of the study.
 The last paragraph is the declaration of data gathering and analysis.