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CHAPTER 3

Research Methodology

This chapter is a presentation of the research design and the study

procedures engaged in the conduct of the study. This is also included the locale

of the study, respondents of the study, instrumentation, sampling method and the

statistical treatment used.

Research Design

The researcher chose a survey research design because it best served to

answer the questions and the purposes of the study. The survey research is one

in which a group of people or items is studied by collecting and analyzing data

from only a few people or items considered to be representative of the entire

group. In other words, only a part of the population is studied, and findings from

this are expected to be generalized to the entire population. The survey

assessing public opinion or individual characteristics by the use of questionnaire

and sampling methods.

Respondents of the Study

The respondents of this study came from Grade 12 TVL students of Pag-

asa National High School. Stratified sampling is used to select according to

grade level or strand.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researchers conducted the following steps in gathering the data

needed in the study. After the approval of the present research topic, the

researchers gathered data to identify the whole content of the topic. The
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questionnaire was made by the researchers are gathered from the different

reading materials, such as books, articles, and related studies. In making final

draft, it is necessary to composed different ideas that are based from research

study. Every questionnaire refers to the topic and must be identify properly by the

respondents. The research teacher is also considered the validation of this

context. The researchers will ask permission from the teacher of the Grade 12

TVL students. Upon granting the permission the researchers will give the survey

questionnaire to the Grade 12 TVL students who are the respondents of the

study. After the retrieval of the accomplish questionnaire, the researcher will

tabulate, analyze, and interpret the gathered data and get the result to determine

and identify the different challenges encountered by Grade 12 TVL students of

Pag-asa National High School in Practical Research.

Research Instrument

The instrument used was a researcher-made questionnaire, in the Part 1

to gather the needed data they need to write their name, strand and section for

the student’s profile. The draft of the questionnaire was drawn out based on the

researcher’s readings, previous studies, professional literature, published and

unpublished thesis relevant to the study. In the preparation of the instrument, the

requirements in the designing of good data collection instrument were

considered. For Part 2, the respondents need to check the appropriate box

based on the level of acceptability with (Always Encountered, Seldom

Encountered and Never Encountered) of the challenges they encountered in

writing research paper in terms of psychological, financial, social physical and

physiological. For Part 3, the respondents also need to check the appropriate box

of each statement if they are helped in addressing or overcoming the challenges

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encountered in writing research paper. In the end, the respondents give their

recommendations for the future researchers on how to overcome challenges in

writing their future research paper to avoid hardship. In addition, the instrument

was validated by few consultant and former professor before it laid on to the

study.