Significance of Research Studies

Significance of the Study

• Research is valuable when it contributes to the community and the relevant academic field.
• Researchers must identify the purpose and societal contribution of their study, including benefits to the society, country, government, institution, agency, and research community.
• A study's contribution to knowledge can include new information, trend analysis, validation of findings, confirmation of major findings, and verification of findings in different populations.
• Beneficiaries of the study should be identified as academic and non-academic.
• Academic beneficiaries include educational staff, teachers, students, and researchers.
• Non-academic beneficiaries include stakeholders, policymakers, agencies, and organizations.
• Researchers must specify the benefits that beneficiaries will gain from the study's results and advantages for those directly involved, especially researchers and research users.
• Research should have a demonstrable contribution to the specialized field or community.

Benefits of Research

• Educational benefits include:
  • Learning about issues and methods in the chosen field.
  • Furthering creative and scholastic achievement.
  • Applying concepts from courses to real-life situations.
  • Sharpening problem-solving skills.
• Professional benefits include:
  • Exploring potential careers.
  • Learning new specialized techniques and skills.
  • Enhancing professional communication skills.
  • Networking with others of similar interests.
• Personal benefits include:
  • Building confidence and independence.
  • Promoting critical thinking.
  • Enhancing awareness.

Sample Research Study

• A study titled "The Media's Influence to the Millennials: Retrospecting Academic Performance and Media Exposure (Sonsona, 2017)" aims to present the power of media in youth lives and technological advances.
• School administrators can use the findings to identify media-related strengths and weaknesses in students and to create faculty enrichment programs that enhance teaching strategies and improve media-based curricula.
• Teachers are able to use the study to improve their communication degree program instruction and enrich students’ learning experiences through media.
• Parents can develop awareness of their role in enhancing their child’s academic progress.
• Students can realize the importance of proper time management, balancing televiewing and study hours to improve academic performance.

Scope of Research

• Scope of research includes the depth of your research area and parameters.
• Parameters included are restriction of the target population, research local, specified duration, design, procedure, and instrument used.
• Population refers to the entire pool from which the sample is drawn.
• Research locale refers to the location where the study is conducted.
• Specific duration refers to the exclusive time frame when the research is conducted.
• Research method refers to the systematic plan, strategies, processes, techniques, and procedures for collecting and analyzing data.

Qualitative Designs

• Ethnography is used for a description or investigation about customs of individual and culture.
• Phenomenology is used for commonality of lived experience within a group of individuals or description of a particular phenomenon.
• Case study is used for an investigation of a phenomenon within the context of real-life situation.
• Grounded theory is used if your research aims toward a development of a theory in an inductive manner.
• Protocols followed refers to the standard procedure, system, or rules that you follow in gathering data.
• Data gathering procedure refers to the step-by-step procedures that you employ before and during the data gathering.
• Instrument refers to measurement devices that you use, such as tests, surveys, or questionnaires.
• In qualitative research, the researcher is the instrument, and their interview guide serves as a tool.
• Data analysis refers to the systematical processes you employ to describe or interpret your data.

Delimitation of Scope

• Delimitation refers to choices made by researcher that serves as a boundary.
• Research objectives, questions, variables, and theoretical objectives.
• Sampling method, target sample size, and justifications.
• First paragraph includes research methods, research design, research locale, time duration, population, sampling, and class size.
• Second paragraph includes instrument used, validation and protocols followed.
• Last paragraph includes the declaration of data gathering and analysis.

Sample Research

• Research title: "Lived Experience PWD Grade 11 Students about Verbal Bullying in a Province."
• Research aims to explore the lived experiences of PWD grade 11 students about bullying.
• This research deals with the description and interpretation of a phenomena based on how these became meaningful to a person or group of people.
• Considers senior high school students of a province during the school year 2020-2021.
• Participants will be selected using snowball method.
• The researcher will serve as the main instrument of the study.
• Interview guide is a researcher-made instrument based on study objectives, composed of five questions.
• Interview questions aim to gather info about the participants' experience and coping mechanisms.
• It is validated by experts using a validation matrix to identify its appropriateness and suitability to the research participants.
• Data is gathered through individualized or focus group discussion based on participant preference, via social media platforms.