CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter provides the description of the research methodology which

includes research design, locale of the study, sampling technique, data gathering

instruments, data gathering procedures, and statistical treatment data.

Research Design

The research design used in this study is descriptive design which concerned with

describing characteristics of a problem. It is the chosen research design. This is the

most appropriate for the study and it helps to present the experiences of college

students on street harassment.

This research design helps to allow in-depth analysis of variables and elements to be

studied. It enables generation of factual information about the study. This is because the

descriptive design relies much on secondary data which helps in developing the case

based on facts, sustained by statistics and descriptive interpretations from the data

being gathered. This quantitative study will consider correlations between the influences

of catcalling with regards to bullying and academic achievement, self-efficacy and self-

esteem at the college level. This methodology will be accomplished through a survey

sample questionnaire, completed by the college students as provided by the

researchers.

Locale of the Study

The researchers will be conducting a study at Maharlika Highway AH26 Santiago City

3311 Isabela from different colleges of Northeastern College. The study will be

implemented on the 30 students of Northeastern College taking up different courses.

This place is selected aims to know the impact of Street Harassment and what are the

coping strategies they have. As well as their proposals in minimizing and or stopping the

street harassment. The researchers choose the place of implementation because it will

give the needed information. The study will be conducted during the academic year of

2022-2023.

Respondents of the Study

The respondents involved in this study are the college students from different colleges of

Northeastern College. The researchers limit its respondents to five (5) students to every

college. These are Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy,

Bachelor of Science in Criminology, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration,

Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management, and Bachelor of Secondary Education,

courses being offered in Northeaster College. The total number of respondents are 30

college students.

Sampling Technique

The sampling technique of this study is simple random sampling to give all the

population members the equal chance of being chosen and is meant to be an unbiased

representation of a group. The researchers will select a total of thirty college students

from population where the population members are all students of Northeastern College

coming from different colleges.

Data Gathering Instruments

The data gathering instruments that the researchers will be used is to gather the college

students’ profile enrolled in Northeastern College. The researchers will use a

questionnaire that will be drawn out from previous studies and research for it is proven to

be much more effective on this type of research. The type of questionnaire is rating

scale questionnaire where the research used likert scale to get information from the

respondents. Likert scales are a non‐comparative scaling technique and are

unidimensional in nature. Respondents are asked to indicate their level of agreement

with a given statement by way of an ordinal scale. The researchers will choose students’

answer from questionnaire as the main instrument to collect the data because

questionnaire is the representative for the research to collect the data fast. Additionally,

questionnaire is a written data that could help the research to remain students’ answer

or response.

Data Gathering Procedure

Data gathering procedure is very important on the research because the main purpose

of the research is collecting the data. Because this study was survey research, to collect

the data, the researcher used questionnaire. Survey defined as any procedure in which

data are systematically collected from a population or a sample thereof through some

form or direct solicitation, such as face to face interviews, telephone interviews or mail

questionnaires. Based on that statement, the data collection of this study was

conducted by employing all instruments used through preliminary research, and

students’ answer from questionnaire. The main data was from students, while another

one was a supporting data.

There were some procedures to be followed during the research, in order to find out the

valid data to answer the research problems. The procedures were:

1. The research asked permission to the lecture to ask students’ permission

2. The researcher asked permission to the participants as the subject to do the research

3. The researcher prepared all the instruments to collect the data. There were many

steps in preparing the instruments:

a. Making the questionnaire. The questions in questionnaire related to the

students’ response toward the use bilingual dictionary in getting the meaning of phrasal

verb in reading English text.

b. Validity. The researcher asks the expert to check the validity of the

questionnaire.

4. The researcher doing the research

a. The researchers looked for the information where the participants had free

time to answer the questionnaire

b. The researcher distributed the questionnaire to the participants

c. After getting the data, the researcher started to analyze the data and

made the conclusion as the result of the research.

Statistical Treatment of Data

As soon as the researchers gathered the data, they will compile, sort, organize and

tabulate the data being gathered. They will subject to statistical treatment in order to

answer the questions proposed in the study. The statistical tools employ are the

frequency distribution, percentage, ordinal scale and weighted mean.

1. Frequency distribution is an arrangement of the data which shows the frequency of

different values or groups of variables.

2. Percentage is to be used to determine the proportion of each given data by using the

formula.

% = (R/C) X 100

Where:

% = Percentage

R = No. of respondents

C = total number of cases

Percentage and frequency distribution were used to show the distribution of students in

a particular range with respect to their experiences in catcalling.