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DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY METHOD

- survey comes from the Latin sur or super which means "above" or "view and vey which means "to
look" or "to see", thus the word survey means "to look over or beyond". This classification of research is
usually used by graduate and undergraduate students when they attempt to analyze, interpret, and
report the present status of their subject matter or problem.

Advantages of the Descriptive Survey Method

a. It is typical, average or normal against which the behavior or performance of an individual can be
judged or evaluated.

b. The result of a survey may be used for prediction.

c. It makes possible the formulation of generalizations because the sample has a high degree of
representiveness.

d. It reveals problem for which timely remedial measures may be instituted.

2. DESCRIPTIVE NORMATIVE METHOD

- This type/classification of descriptive research describes the status if events and people or subjects as
they exist. This method is employed to process data that come to the researcher through observation.

3. DESCRIPTIVE CORRELATIONAL METHOD

- is used to determine whether or not there is a relationship that exists between two or more
quantifiable variables, and if there is, to what extend or degree the relationship is.

4. DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATIVE METHOD

- this study judges the goodness of an existing program. It is directed to whether or not of particular
program achieved its goal or not. Evaluative research might simply seek to find out whether the criterion
was met or not.

According to Best and Kahn, this method answers the following questions.

a. What are the goals and objectives of the program being evaluated?

b. What are the intended results of the program?

c. Are the intended results of the program achieved?

d. Are there other unintended results of the program? If there is, were they positive or negative?

e. Are the results of the program sufficient to warrant contribution?

5. DESCRIPTIVE ASSESSMENT METHOD

- this is a fact-finding that describes conditions that exist at a particular time such as practices and
beliefs.

6. DESCRIPTIVE COMPARATIVE METHOD

- this method provides an explanation about the extent of relationship between two or more variables.

Advantages of Comparative Study

a. Intervening variables of comparative study can easily be noted and discerned.

b. Research variables can easily be selected.

c. Comparative results of this study can be known immediately.

d. Comparative method is easily conducted.

Disadvantages of Comparative Study

a. The findings of the study are very much limited because it cannot show the cause of a change in
another variable

b. Variables to be selected are likewise limited.

c. It is difficult to get samples which have the same characteristics or attributes.